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Who has been tested by it and been found perfect? Let it be for him a ground for boasting. Who has had the power to transgress and did not transgress, and to do evil and did not do it?
8
Blessed is the rich man who is found blameless, and who does not go after gold.
9
Who is he? And we will call him blessed, for he has done wonderful things among his people.
10
Who has been tested by it and been found perfect? Let it be for him a ground for boasting. Who has had the power to transgress and did not transgress, and to do evil and did not do it?
11
His prosperity will be established, and the assembly will relate his acts of charity.
12
Are you seated at the table of a great man? Do not be greedy at it, and do not say, "There is certainly much upon it!"
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.