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Te Tikanga Pono
1 Heoi, e ōku tēina kia hari i roto i te Ariki. Ki ahau kāhore he hōhā o te tuhituhi atu i aua mea nei anō ki a koutou; ki a koutou ia hei mea e ū ai.
2 Kia tūpato ki ngā kurī, kia tūpato ki ngā kaimahi i te kino, kia tūpato ki te tapahanga.
3 Ko tātou hoki te kotinga, e mahi nei ki te Atua i runga i te wairua, e whakamanamana nei ki a Karaiti Īhu, kāhore nei e ū te whakaaro ki te kikokiko.
4 Otirā, tērā anō ahau e ū te whakaaro ki te kikokiko ki te whakaaro tētahi atu tangata he mea tāna e ū ai tōna whakaaro ki te kikokiko, tērā atu anō tāku.
5 Ko te kotinga i te rā tuawaru, nō te whānau a Īharaira, nō te hapū o Pineamine, he Hiperu nō ngā Hiperu; ki tō te ture he Parihi;
6 mō te ngākau nui ki te Atua, i whakatoi ahau i te hāhi; mō te tika, arā mō tērā i te ture, kāhore he kupu mōku.
7 He ahakoa rā, ko ngā mea i waiho rā e ahau hei taonga ki ahau, kua kīa ake e ahau hei rukenga, i te mea ka whakaaro nei ki a te Karaiti.
8 Āe rā, kīa iho e ahau ngā mea katoa hei rukenga, i te mea ka whakaaro nei ki te pai whakaharahara o te mātauranga ki a Karaiti Īhu, ki tōku Ariki. He whakaaro nei ki a ia i riro ai ēnā mea katoa ōku ki te kore, āe rā, kīa iho e ahau hei paru, kia whiwhi ai ahau ki a te Karaiti;
9 kia kitea ai hoki kei roto ahau i a ia, kāhore he tika ōku ake, arā he tika i te ture, engari ko tērā e nā runga ana mai i te whakapono ki a te Karaiti, ko te tika a te Atua nā te whakapono.
10 Kia mātau ai ahau ki a ia, ki te kaha hoki o tōna aranga mai, ki te urunga tahitanga hoki ki ōna mamae, he mea whakaahua kia rite ki tōna matenga;
11 me kore ahau e tutuki ki te aranga mai i roto i te hunga mate.
E Tāwhai ana ki te Tohu
12 Ehara i te mea kua mau rawa ahau, kua tino rite rānei ahau; engari e whāia atu ana e ahau, me kore e mau i ahau te mea i mau ai ahau i a Karaiti Īhu.
13 E ōku tēina, kāhore āku kīanga ake kua mau i ahau, kotahi ia tāku: wareware ake i ahau ngā mea ō muri, whātoro tonu atu ki ngā mea i mua,
14 ka tāwhai tonu ahau ki te tohu, ki te utu whakahōnore o tō runga karangatanga a te Atua, i roto i a Karaiti Īhu.
15 Nā reira, ko te hunga o tātou kua tino rite, kia pēnei ō tātou whakaaro; ā, ki te rere kē ō koutou whakaaro ki tētahi mea, mā te Atua anō tēnei e whakakite ki a koutou.
16 Engari, ko te wāhi kua taea atu e tātou ko tērā anō hei tikanga mō tā tātou haere.
17 Kia rite tō koutou ki tōku, e ōku tēina, tirohia hoki te hunga e rite ana te haere ki tā mātou kua waiho nei hei tauira mō koutou.
18 He tokomaha hoki kei te haere, ka maha nei ngā wā i kōrerotia ai rātou e ahau ki a koutou, ā, ka kōrerotia nei ināianei me te tangi anō ahau, he hoa whawhai rātou ki te rīpeka o te Karaiti.
19 Ko te tukunga iho ki a rātou he whakangaro, tō rātou atua ko te kōpū, tō rātou korōria hoki kei runga i tō rātou whakamā, ko ngā mea o te whenua tā rātou e whakaaro ai.
20 Ko te rangi ia te wāhi i tangata whenua ai tātou; kei reira hoki te Kaiwhakaora e tāria atu nei e tātou, te Ariki, a Īhu Karaiti.
21 Māna nei e whakaahua kē tō tātou tinana tūtūā nei, kia rite ki tōna tinana korōria, i runga i te mahinga a tōna kaha e taea ai e ia te pēhi ngā mea katoa ki raro i a ia.