6 For would ye with me hear His counsel, who knows where “good days” and where “life” is? Hear it not from me, but together with me. For One says to us, “Come, you children, hearken unto Me.” And let us run together, and stand, and prick up our ears, and with our hearts understand the Father, who has said, “Come, you children, hearken unto Me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord.” And then follows what he would teach us, and to what end the fear of the Lord is useful.
“Who is the man that wishes life, and loves to see good days?” We all answer, “We wish it.” Let us listen then to what follows, “Refrain your tongue from evil, and your lips that they speak no guile.” Now say, “I wish it.” Just now when I said, “Who is the man that wishes for life, and loves to see good days?” we all answered, “I.” Come then, let some one now answer “I.” So then, “Refrain your tongue from evil, and your lips that they speak no guile.” Now say, “I.” Would you then have “good days” and “life,” and would you not “refrain your tongue from evil, and your lips that they speak no guile”?
Alert to the reward, slow to the work! And to whom if he does not work is the reward rendered? I would that in your house you would render the reward even to him that does work! For to him that works not, I am sure you do not render it. And why? Because you owe nothing to him that does not work! And God has a reward proposed. What reward? “Life and good days,” which life we all desire, and unto which days we all strive to come. The promised reward He will give us. What reward? “Life and good days.” And what are “good days”? Life without end, rest without labour.
Source: Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament (New Advent)