He that walketh righteously, And speaketh uprightly, - He that refuseth the gain of exactions That shaketh his hands free from holding a bribe, That stoppeth his ear from hearkening to deeds of blood, And shutteth his eyes from giving countenance to wrong,

Now they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and righteous appointments of the Lord, blameless;

For, our boasting, is, this, - the witness of our conscience, that, in sanctity and sincerity of God, and not in fleshly wisdom, but in God's favour, have we behaved ourselves in the world, - and more abundantly towards you.

For the favour of God, bringing salvation for all men, hath shone forth,

His children

A good man, leaveth an inheritance to children's children, but, laid up for the righteous, is the wealth of the sinner.

And I will confirm my covenant betwixt me and thee and thy seed after thee to their generations for an age-abiding covenant, - to become to thee a God, and to thy seed after thee;

All day long, is he showing favour and lending, his seed, therefore, shall have a blessing.

Mighty in the earth, shall be his seed, The generation of the upright, shall be blessed;

And I will give them one heart, and one way, That they may revere me, all the days, - For the good of them and of their children after them;

For, unto you, is the promise, and unto your children, - and unto all them who are afar off: as many soever as the Lord our God shall call unto him.

General references

Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground and the fruit of thy cattle, - the young of thy kine, and the ewes of thy flock:

Let, blamelessness and uprightness, watch over me, because I have waited for thee.

Mighty in the earth, shall be his seed, The generation of the upright, shall be blessed;