My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commands with thee;
From the command of his lips and I will not waver; from his law I hid the words of his mouth.
To number our days so make known, and we shall bring the heart to wisdom.
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment, and uprightness;
He watching the law a son understanding: and the companion of squanderers will shame his father.
My son, thou shalt not forget my law, and thy heart shall guard my commands:
Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Hear, my son, and receive my words, and the years of life shall be multiplied to thee.
Tie them always upon thy heart; bind them upon thy throat
My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee.
Shall not wisdom call, and understanding give her voice?
Wisdom built her house, she hewed out her seven pillars:
Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like to a treasure hid in the field; which a man finding, concealed, and from his joy, he retires, and all things which he has he sells, and he purchases that field.
And Mary kept together all these sayings, reflecting in her heart.
And he went dawn with them, and came to Nazareth, and was placed under them : and his mother kept all these words in her heart.
Put ye these words into your ears: for the Son of man is about to be delivered up into the bands of men.
And it is not beyond the sea, to say, Who shall pass over for us to the other side of the sea, and take it to us and cause us to hear it and do it?
Faithful the word, and worthy of all acceptance, for Christ Jesus came into the world to save the sinful; of whom I am first.