17 If you are worthy of the crown of life you will be slandered, vilified and curst on earth.
18 Rejoice when evil men shall drive you from their ways and cause your name to be a hiss and byword in the street.
19 I say, rejoice; but deal in mercy with the doers of the wrong; they are but children at their play; they know not what they do.
20 Rejoice not over fallen foes. As you help men rise from the depth of sin, so God will help you on to greater heights.
21 Woe to the rich is gold and lands; they have temptations multiform.
22 Woe unto men who walk at will in pleasure’s paths; their ways are full of snares and dangerous pits.
23 Woe to the proud; they stand upon a precipice; destruction waits for them.
24 Woe to the man of greed; for what he has is not his own; and, lo, another comes; his wealth is gone.
25 Woe to the hypocrite; his form is fair to look upon; his heart is filled with carcasses and dead men’s bones.
26 Woe to the cruel and relentless man; he is himself the victim of his deeds.