- Wisdom is the principal thing;
Therefore get wisdom.
And in all your getting, get understanding. - Get wisdom! Get understanding!
Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth. - How much better to get wisdom than gold!
And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. - And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
- Do not overwork to be rich;
Because of your own understanding, cease! - The ransom of a man’s life is his riches,
But the poor does not hear rebuke. - The wicked man does deceptive work,
But he who sows righteousness will have a sure reward. - But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
- So teach us to number our days,
That we may gain a heart of wisdom. - Happy is the man who finds wisdom,
And the man who gains understanding. - But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.
- He who gets wisdom loves his own soul;
He who keeps understanding will find good. - And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
- The generous soul will be made rich,
And he who waters will also be watered himself. - Receive one who is weak in the faith, but not to disputes over doubtful things.
- You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
- Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
- Direct my steps by Your word,
And let no iniquity have dominion over me. - And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.
- Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.
- O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off. - Do not turn to the right or the left;
Remove your foot from evil. - But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
- Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.
- Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him;
Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way,
Because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
Sweetness to the soul and health to the bones. I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
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