¹ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;

¹ My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee.

¹ Hear, `my' sons, the instruction of a father, And attend to know understanding:

¹ My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:

⁴⁷ And if any man hear my sayings, and keep them not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

⁴⁸ He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my sayings, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I spake, the same shall judge him in the last day.

⁵¹ And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all `these' sayings in her heart.

¹⁹ But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

⁴⁴ The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

²¹ Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.

²⁰ My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

²¹ Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thy heart.

²² For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.

¹⁰ Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.

³ To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice and equity;

⁹ BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed `thereto' according to thy word.

¹⁰ With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments.

¹¹ Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.

¹² I have not gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

⁶ And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart;

⁷ and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

⁸ And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

⁹ And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.

¹⁵ Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:

⁴⁴ Let these words sink into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men.