15Consider that I have set before you this day life and good, and on the other hand death and evil:

16That you mayst love the Lord your God, and walk in his ways, and keep his commands and ceremonies and judgments, and you mayst live, and he may multiply you, and bless you in the land, which you shall go in to have.

17But if your heart be turned away, so that you will not hear, and being deceived with error you adore strange gods, and serve them:

18I foretell you this day that you shall perish, and shall remain but a short time in the land, to which you shall pass over the Jordan, and shall go in to have it.

19I call heaven and earth to witness this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Choose therefore life, that both you and your offspring may live:

20And that you mayst love the Lord your God, and obey his voice, and adhere to him (for he is your life, and the length of your days,) that you mayst dwell in the land, for which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give it them.

1Blessed is the man who has not walked in the guidance of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence.

2But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night.

3And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all whoever he shall do shall prosper.

22Saying: The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the leaders and chief priests and teachers of the law, and be killed, and the third day rise again.

23And he said to all: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

24For whoever will save his life, shall lose it; for the one who will lose his life for my sake, shall save it.

25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, and cast away himself?