Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight.”
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
“Strive to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.
Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,
Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.
Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father’s house,
Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.
Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.
that they may walk in my statutes and keep my rules and obey them. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
“My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes.