31 As for G-d, His derech is tamim;

the Word of Hashem is proven;

He is a mogen (shield) to all them that trust in Him.

30 For by Thee have I scattered a troop;

and by Elohai have I leaped over a wall.

1 Ashrei are the blameless ones in the derech,

who walk in the torat Hashem.

2 He that walketh blamelessly, and worketh tzedek,

and speaketh emes from his lev.

3 He that backbiteth not with his leshon,

nor doeth ra’ah to his re’a,

nor taketh up a slur to discredit his neighbor.

7 He layeth up tushiyyah (wise Torah counsel) for the yesharim (upright ones);

He is a mogen (shield) to them that walk in blamelessness.

2 For all of us stumble variously. If anyone as far as lashon hora is concerned, does not stumble, this one is an ish tamim able to bridle also the entire guf (body).*

27 Avodas Kodesh that is tehorah (pure) and tamimah (unblemished) before Elohim HaAv is this: to visit yetomim (orphans) and almanot (widows) in their tzoros and to be shomer against the defilement of the Olam Hazeh.*

17 Every good endowment and every matanah shleimah (complete gift) is from above, coming down from Avi HaOhrot (the Father of Lights) with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.*

9 And having been made shalem (complete), to all those with mishma’at toward Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, he became the source of Yeshu’at Eloheinu Olamim,

21 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to him, If you wish to be tamim (perfect), if you wish to have shelemut (perfection, completeness), then go and sell your possessions and give to the aniyim (poor) and you will have otzar (treasure) in Shomayim. Then come and follow me.*

11 These things I have spoken to you that the simcha of me may be in you and the simcha of you may be made shleimah.

24 Until now you did not ask anything b’Shem of me. Ask and you will receive that the simcha of you may be shleimah.

2 Stop allowing yourself to be conformed to the Olam Hazeh, but be transformed by your hitkhadshut (regeneration, renewal) of your mind, so that you may ascertain what is the ratzon Hashem (the will of G-d), what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of G-d.

10 Now I exhort you, Achim b’Moshiach, b’Shem Adoneinu Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, that you all speak the same thing and that there not be among you machlokot (divisions of dissension),* but that you may have achdus (unity) in the same mind and in the same way of thinking.

14 And to all these things add ahavah, which is the agudah of tamimim.

1 If, therefore, there is any idud (encouragement) in Moshiach, if any nechamah (comfort) of ahavah (love), if any deveykus (attachment to G-d) in the Messianic chavrusashaft (association) of the Ruach Hakodesh, if any warmth of affection and rachamanut (compassion, mercy), 2 Then make my simcha (joy) shleimah (complete) by having the same lev, the same ahavah, being an agudah association with one neshamah, thinking the same machshavot (thoughts), 3 Doing nothing according to anochiyut* (selfishness) nor according to empty ga’avah (conceit, haughtiness, arrogance), but in anavah (humility), fergin (graciously grant) each other esteem above yourselves.* 4 Let each of you talmidim look after not only your own interests, but also the best interests of others.* 5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua, 6 Who, though existing in the demut of the mode of being of Elohim,* nevertheless Moshiach did not regard being equal with G-d as a thing to be seized,* 7 But poured out and emptied himself,* taking the demut of the mode of being of an eved,* T.N. see the AVDI TZADDIK TZEMACH DOVID MOSHIACH Jer 23:5; Zech 3:8 and was born in the likeness of Bnei Adam,* and having been found in appearance as an Adam, 8 Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach humbled himself and took the path of shiflut (lowliness), unto mishma’at* (obedience)* even unto death,* and that, a death on HaEtz.* 9 Therefore, also Hashem exalted* Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, and gave to him haShem* above every name, 10 That at haShem of Yehoshua, KOL BERECH (every knee) will bow,* of beings b’Shomayim and ba’Aretz and mitachat la’Aretz (in the world below), 11 And KOL LASHON* (every tongue) shall make hoda’ah (confession) with an Ani Ma’amin that is an open and public admission that Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua (Yeshua) is Adoneinu, to the kavod of Elohim Avinu.

12 Therefore, Chaverim, just as you have always had mishma’at* (obedience) concerning me, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own Yeshu’ah (Salvation)*[28] B’YIR’AH (with fear) and BIRA’DAH "with trembling".* 13 For Hashem is the one working in you, both to will and to work according to His chafetz (good pleasure of His will).*

14 Do all things without murmurings and madon, 15 That you may be innocent and without michshol of blame,* bnei haElohim TAMIM U’MUM* (unblemished and unspotted) in the midst of a DOR IKKESH UFETALTOL (warped and crooked generation),* among whom you shine as the ZOHAR* in the Olam Hazeh, 16 Holding fast the Dvar HaChayyim. This is so that I will have reason for glorying on the Yom HaMoshiach,* that I neither ran nor labored L’TOHU (in vain).* 17 And, indeed, if my neshamah is to be poured out as a nesekh (libation wine) offering upon the korban (sacrifice) of the avodas kodesh (kohenʼs service, ministry) of your emunah, I have simcha, rejoicing together with you all.* 18 And in the same way also you have simcha, rejoicing together with me.*

19 I have tikvah b’Adoneinu Yehoshua to send Timotiyos to you soon, that I also may be cheered up in the da’as of the things concerning you. 20 For I have no one like-minded who will emesdik (genuinely) care for your spiritual welfare. 21 All of them are seeking their own interest,* not those of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach Yehoshua. 22 But of the proven mamashus (real worth) of Timotiyos you have da’as, because as a ben with his abba, Timotiyos served with me in the Besuras HaGeulah. 23 Therefore, I have tikvah to send him, as soon as I see how things will go with me. 24 But I have bitachon in Hashem that indeed I will come quickly.

25 But I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, the Ach b’Moshiach and fellow po’el (worker) and fellow chaiyal (soldier) of mine, but your shliach and keli kodesh (minister) of my need.* 26 I am sending him to you, because he was yearning after you all and was under zeiyar (extremely great) stress, because you heard that he was ill. 27 For indeed he was ill, coming near to death, but Hashem had mercy on him not on him only but also on me, lest I should have agmat nefesh upon agmat nefesh. 28 Therefore, I am all the more eager to dispatch him to you, in order that when you have seen him again, you may have simcha and I may have less agmat nefesh. 29 Therefore, receive him in Adoneinu with all simcha and hold esteem for such klei kodesh (ministers),* 30 Because he came near to death on account of the avodas kodesh of Moshiach, performing an act of Messianic mesirat nefesh (whole-hearted devotion)* having risked his life, that he might make up for the ministry to me that you could not give.

15 See that no one returns ra’ah for ra’ah, but always pursue haTov both for one another and for all.

10 But He knoweth the derech that I take;

when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as zahav.

11 My regel hath held to His steps,

over His way have I been shomer, and not turned aside.