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³⁴Your eye is the light of your body. If your eye is wholesome, your entire body will be filled with light. But if it is wicked, then even your body will be darkened.

⁸Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these.

³I will not display any unjust thing before my eyes. I have hated those carrying out betrayals. ⁴The perverse heart did not adhere to me. And the malignant, who turned away before me, I would not recognize.

⁷How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger and the preacher of peace! Announcing good and preaching peace, they are saying to Zion, “Your God will reign!”

³³Do not be led astray. Evil communication corrupts good morals.

²¹But test all things. Hold on to whatever is good. ²²Abstain from every kind of evil.

¹⁵Do not choose to love the world, nor the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the charity of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world is the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the arrogance of a life which is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷And the world is passing away, with its desire. But whoever does the will of God abides unto eternity.

²²The lamp of your body is your eye. If your eye is wholesome, your entire body will be filled with light. ²³But if your eye has been corrupted, your entire body will be darkened. If then the light that is in you is darkness, how great will that darkness be!

⁵So also the tongue certainly is a small part, but it moves great things. Consider that a small fire can set ablaze a great forest. ⁶And so the tongue is like a fire, comprising all iniquity. The tongue, stationed in the midst of our body, can defile the entire body and inflame the wheel of our nativity, setting a fire from Hell. ⁷For the nature of all beasts and birds and serpents and others is ruled over, and has been ruled over, by human nature. ⁸But no man is able to rule over the tongue, a restless evil, full of deadly poison. ⁹By it we bless God the Father, and by it we speak evil of men, who have been made in the likeness of God. ¹⁰From the same mouth proceeds blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so!

³I will not display any unjust thing before my eyes. I have hated those carrying out betrayals.

⁴³where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished. ⁴⁴But if your foot causes you to sin, chop it off: it is better for you to enter into eternal life lame, than having two feet to be cast into the Hell of unquenchable fire, ⁴⁵where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished. ⁴⁶But if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out: it is better for you to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into the Hell of fire, ⁴⁷where their worm does not die, and the fire is not extinguished.

¹⁹speaking among yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and reciting psalms to the Lord in your hearts, ²⁰giving thanks always for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God the Father.

²A difficult vision has been announced to me: he who is unbelieving, he acts unfaithfully, and he who is a plunderer, he devastates. Ascend, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I have caused all its mourning to cease.

¹²All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient. All is lawful to me, but I will not be driven back by the authority of anyone. ¹³Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food. But God shall destroy both the stomach and food. And the body is not for fornication, but rather for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

¹⁶Let the word of Christ live in you in abundance, with all wisdom, teaching and correcting one another, with psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing to God with the grace in your hearts.

²⁹Let no evil words proceed from your mouth, but only what is good, toward the edification of faith, so as to bestow grace upon those who listen.