| Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. | Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. |
| Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. | Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. |
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| He said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ | Jesus replied: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ |
| To get wisdom is to love oneself; to keep understanding is to prosper. | The one who gets wisdom loves life; the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper. |
| For in much wisdom is much vexation, and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow. | For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. |
| The clever see danger and hide; but the simple go on, and suffer for it. | The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty. |
| Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another. | As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. |
| Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding. | Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding. |
| Who is wise and understanding among you? Show by your good life that your works are done with gentleness born of wisdom. | Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom. |
| Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. | Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. |
| Even fools who keep silent are considered wise; when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent. | Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues. |
| Ever since the creation of the world his eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been understood and seen through the things he has made. So they are without excuse. | For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. |
| For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. | For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the faith God has distributed to each of you. |
| For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. | For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. |
| A fool despises a parent's instruction, but the one who heeds admonition is prudent. | A fool spurns a parent’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction shows prudence. |
| And ‘to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength,’ and ‘to love one's neighbor as oneself,’—this is much more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. | To love him with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices. |
