Why did I not listen to the voice of my teachers, incline my ear to my instructors!
He spoke to them as the young men had advised: “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will make it heavier. My father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions.”
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction, and reject not your mother’s teaching;
I am all but ruined, in the midst of the public assembly!”
I shall get up and go to my father and I shall say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
Therefore, whoever disregards this, disregards not a human being but God, who [also] gives his holy Spirit to you. Mutual Charity.
Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.