4 in order that Jehovah may carry out his word that he spoke respecting me,+ saying, ‘If your sons+ will take care of their way by walking+ before me in truth*+ with all their heart+ and with all their soul, there will not be cut off a man of yours from [sitting] upon the throne of Israel.’+

2 That is why it is necessary for us to pay more than the usual attention to* the things heard+ by us, that we may never drift away.+

23 When he was being reviled,+ he did not go reviling in return.+ When he was suffering,+ he did not go threatening, but kept on committing himself to the one+ who judges righteously.