So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.
Beloved, do not imitate evil but imitate good. Whoever does good is from God; whoever does evil has not seen God.
Thus says the Lord: “Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions? If you do not know, O most beautiful among women, follow in the tracks of the flock, and pasture your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.
I am a companion of all who fear you, of those who keep your precepts.
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