Himself according to the goodness of their life. For
these alone love God; for in doing what comes from Him they love what is
divine. The precepts of His law are divine things from Him. They are God
because He is His own proceeding divine. As this is to love God, the Lord
says:

He who keeps my commandments is he who loves me . . . But he who does not
keep my commandments does not love me (Jn 14: 21, 24).

[7] Here is the reason why there are two tables of the Decalog, one
having reference to God and the other to man. God works unceasingly that
man may receive what is in His table, but if man does not do what he is
bidden in his own table he does not receive with acknowledgment of heart
what is in God's table, and if he does not receive this he is not
conjoined. The two tables were joined, therefore, to be one and are
called the tables of the covenant; covenant means conjunction. One
acknowledges God and is conjoined to Him in accord with the goodness of
his life because this good is like the good in the Lord and consequently
comes from the Lord. So when man is in the good of life there is
conjunction. The contrary takes place with evil of life; it rejects the
Lord.

[8] Third: _Goodness of life, or living rightly, is shunning evils
because they are contrary to religion, thus to God._ That this is good of
life or living rightly is fully shown in _Doctrine of Life for the New
Jerusalem,_ from beginning to end. To this I will only add that if you do
good aplenty, build churches for instance, adorn them and fill them with
offerings, spend money lavishly on hospitals and hostels, give alms
daily, aid widows and orphans, diligently observe the sanctities of
worship, indeed think and speak and preach about them as from the heart,
and yet do not shun evils as sins against God, all those good deeds are
not goodness. They are either hypocritical or done for merit, for evil is
still deep in them. Everyone's life pervades all that he does. Goods
become good only by the removal of evil from them. Plainly, then,
shunning evils because they are contrary to religion and thus to God is
living rightly.

[9] Fourth: _These are factors common to all religions, and anyone can be
saved by them._ To acknowledge God, and to refrain from evil because it
is contrary to God, are the two acts that make religion to be religion.
If one is lacking, it cannot be called religion, for to acknowledge God
and to do evil is a contradiction; so it is,