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1:1  Love righteousness, you who judge the earth; think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in integrity of heart;
1:2  Because he is found by those who do not test him, and manifests himself to those who do not disbelieve him.
1:3  For perverse counsels separate people from God, and his power, put to the proof, rebukes the foolhardy;
1:4  Because into a soul that plots evil wisdom does not enter, nor does she dwell in a body under debt of sin.
1:5  For the holy spirit of discipline flees deceit and withdraws from senseless counsels and is rebuked when unrighteousness occurs.
1:6  For wisdom is a kindly spirit, yet she does not acquit blasphemous lips; Because God is the witness of the inmost self and the sure observer of the heart and the listener to the tongue.
1:7  For the spirit of the Lord fills the world, is all-embracing, and knows whatever is said.
1:8  Therefore those who utter wicked things will not go unnoticed, nor will chastising condemnation pass them by.
1:9  For the devices of the wicked shall be scrutinized, and the sound of their words shall reach the Lord, for the chastisement of their transgressions;
1:10  Because a jealous ear hearkens to everything, and discordant grumblings are not secret.
1:11  Therefore guard against profitless grumbling, and from calumny withhold your tongues; For a stealthy utterance will not go unpunished, and a lying mouth destroys the soul.
1:12  Do not court death by your erring way of life, nor draw to yourselves destruction by the works of your hands.
1:13  Because God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living.
1:14  For he fashioned all things that they might have being, and the creatures of the world are wholesome; There is not a destructive drug among them nor any domain of Hades on earth,
1:15  For righteousness is undying.
1:16  It was the wicked who with hands and words invited death, considered it a friend, and pined for it, and made a covenant with it, Because they deserve to be allied with it.