- How can a young man keep his way pure?
By guarding it according to your word. - The young lions suffer want and hunger;
but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. - I have made a covenant with my eyes;
how then could I gaze at a virgin? - Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.
- Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
- Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
- May my teaching drop as the rain,
my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
and like showers upon the herb.
And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.”