Listen to me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
What man is he that desires life, and loves many days, that he may see good?
A wise son hears his father’s instruction: but a scorner does not listen to rebuke.
Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and give heed to know understanding.
Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
My little children, for whom I labor painfully in birth again until Christ is formed in you,
My little children, these things I write to you so that you do not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: