Then Moses spoke to the LORD, saying:“Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,“who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”

You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.

For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light; and what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

His divine power has given to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him who called us by glory and virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.