Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. | Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. |
Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil. | See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, 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 said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ |
To get wisdom is to love oneself; to keep understanding is to prosper. | He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; He who keeps understanding will find good. |
For in much wisdom is much vexation, and those who increase knowledge increase sorrow. | For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. |
The clever see danger and hide; but the simple go on, and suffer for it. | A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself; The simple pass on and are punished. |
Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another. | As iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. |
Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding. | Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains 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 him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of 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 whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to 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 a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; When he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive. |
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 I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. |
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 His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. |
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and him crucified. | For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. |
A fool despises a parent's instruction, but the one who heeds admonition is prudent. | A fool despises his father’s instruction, But he who receives correction is prudent. |
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. | And to love Him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. |