What is desirable ¹  for a person is to show loyal love, ²  and a poor person is better than a liar. ³ 

For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

It must not be this way among you! Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,

This is the reason ¹  I do my best to always ²  have a clear ³  conscience toward God and toward people. ⁴ 

and know his will ¹  and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law, ² 

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day. ¹ 

But you should be eager for the greater gifts. And now I will show you a way that is beyond comparison. ¹ 

Now the works of the flesh ¹  are obvious: ²  sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. ¹ 

For this is God’s will: that you become holy, ¹  that you keep away from sexual immorality,

sexually immoral people, practicing homosexuals, ¹  kidnappers, liars, perjurers – in fact, for any who live contrary to sound teaching.

Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.

You must have this tassel so that you may look at it and remember all the commandments of the Lord and obey them and so that you do not follow ¹  after your own heart and your own eyes that lead you to unfaithfulness. ² 

So the name of that place was called Kibroth Hattaavah, ¹  because there they buried the people that craved different food. ² 

After Solomon finished building the Lord’s temple, the royal palace, and all the other construction projects he had planned, ¹ 

everyone who has determined to follow God, ¹  the Lord God of his ancestors, even if he is not ceremonially clean according to the standards of the temple.” ² 

The sacrifices God desires are a humble spirit ¹  – O God, a humble and repentant heart ²  you will not reject. ³ 

It is better to be content with ¹  what the eyes can see ²  than for one’s heart always to crave more. ³  This continual longing ⁴  is futile – like ⁵  chasing the wind.

The Beloved to the Maidens: I admonish you, O maidens ¹  of Jerusalem: “Do not ²  arouse or awaken love until it pleases!”

Instead they have followed the stubborn inclinations of their own hearts. They have paid allegiance to ¹  the gods called Baal, ²  as their fathers ³  taught them to do.