So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak.
Do you want to really live? Would you love to live a long, happy life?
A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.
So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.
My children – I am again undergoing birth pains until Christ is formed in you!
(My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin.) But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous One,