My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
“I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my portion of food.
So teach us to number our days, That we may present to You a heart of wisdom.
To receive discipline that leads to insight, Righteousness, justice, and equity,
He who observes the law is a son who understands, But he who befriends gluttons humiliates his father.
My son, do not forget my law, But let your heart guard my commandments;
Hear, O sons, the discipline of a father, And pay attention that you may know understanding,
¶Hear, my son, and receive my sayings And the years of your life will be many.
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.
Does not wisdom call, And discernment give forth her voice?
Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars;
“The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
But Mary was treasuring all these things, pondering them in her heart.
And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and He continued in subjection to them, and His mother was treasuring all these things in her heart.
“Put these words into your ears; for the Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men.”
Nor is it beyond the sea, that you should say, ‘Who will cross the sea for us and get it for us and make us hear it, that we may do it?’
It is a trustworthy saying and deserving full acceptance: that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, among whom I am foremost.