Only those who live pure lives, do what is right, and speak the truth from their hearts can live on your mountain.
Such people don't say bad things about others. They don't do things to hurt their neighbors. They don't tell shameful things about those close to them.

We all make many mistakes. A person who never said anything wrong would be perfect. Someone like that would be able to control their whole body too.

Together with these things, the most important part of your new life is to love each other. Love is what holds everything together in perfect unity.

Don't change yourselves to be like the people of this world, but let God change you inside with a new way of thinking. Then you will be able to decide and accept what God wants for you. You will be able to know what is good and pleasing to him and what is perfect.

Do everything without complaining or arguing
so that you will be blameless and pure, children of God without any fault. But you are living with evil people all around you, who have lost their sense of what is right. Among those people you shine like lights in a dark world,
and you offer them the teaching that gives life. So I can be proud of you when Christ comes again. You will show that my work was not wasted that I ran in the race and won.

Brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, I beg all of you to agree with each other. You should not be divided into different groups. Be completely joined together again with the same kind of thinking and the same purpose.

Be sure that no one pays back wrong for wrong. But always try to do what is good for each other and for all people.

God's way is perfect. The Lord's promise always proves to be true. He protects those who trust in him.

But God knows me. He is testing me and will see that I am as pure as gold.
I have always lived the way God wants. I have never stopped following him.

Aleph What blessings there are for those who live pure lives! They follow the Lord's teachings.

The worship that God wants is this: caring for orphans or widows who need help and keeping yourself free from the world's evil influence. This is the kind of worship that God accepts as pure and good.

You have never asked for anything in this way before. But ask in my name, and you will receive. And you will have the fullest joy possible.

Jesus answered, "If you want to be perfect, then go and sell all that you own. Give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven. Then come and follow me!"

Everything good comes from God. Every perfect gift is from him. These good gifts come down from the Father who made all the lights in the sky. But God never changes like the shadows from those lights. He is always the same.

God's way is perfect. The Lord's promise always proves to be true. He protects those who trust him.

This made him the perfect high priest, who provides the way for everyone who obeys him to be saved forever.

He gives good advice to honest people and shields those who do what is right.