¹³ Return their cloak by sunset^(A) so that your neighbor may sleep in it.^(B) Then they will thank you, and it will be regarded as a righteous act in the sight of the Lord your God.^(C)

³¹ but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness,^(A) have not attained their goal.^(B)

³ Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.^(A)

⁵ Moses writes this about the righteousness that is by the law: “The person who does these things will live by them.”^[a](A)