Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. | Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are 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. | Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, 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 shall 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 sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it. |
Iron sharpens iron, and one person sharpens the wits of another. | Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance. |
Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding. | Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets 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 his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness 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. | Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock. |
Even fools who keep silent are considered wise; when they close their lips, they are deemed intelligent. | Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning. |
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 that was given me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think; but to think reasonably, as God has apportioned to each person 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 the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be 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 correction, but he who heeds reproof 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. | And to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbor as himself, is more important than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. |