⁶ Children's children are the crown of old men; The glory of children are their parents.

¹⁷ But Yahweh's loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, His righteousness to children's children;

¹⁸ To those who keep his covenant, To those who remember to obey his precepts.

¹⁹ Yahweh has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.

⁸ My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:

⁹ For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

⁹ Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.

²⁷ Prepare your work outside, And get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.

¹⁷ A friend loves at all times; And a brother is born for adversity.

⁴ You fathers, don't provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

¹⁹ 'Honor your father and mother.' And, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'"

²⁴ A man of many companions may be ruined, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father; But a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

¹⁰ Now I beg you, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.

³² And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

⁴ But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them learn first to show piety towards their own family, and to repay their parents, for this is{TR adds "good and"} acceptable in the sight of God.

¹⁰ Don't forsake your friend and your father's friend. Don't go to your brother's house in the day of your disaster: Better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.

²⁰ If a man says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn't love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

²⁷ He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, But he who hates bribes will live.

²⁰ My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.

² Beloved, now we are children of God, and it is not yet revealed what we will be. But we know that, when he is revealed, we will be like him; for we will see him just as he is.

³ Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

⁴ Everyone who sins also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.

¹³ If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?"

⁸ But if anyone doesn't provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.

¹⁵ My son, if your heart is wise, Then my heart will be glad, even mine:

³¹ They said, "Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household."

³ Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, So are the children of youth.

⁵ Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won't be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

⁵⁷ Yahweh our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us;

²⁹ He who troubles his own house shall inherit the wind. The foolish shall be servant to the wise of heart.

¹ Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.

² "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with a promise:

³ "that it may be well with you, and you may live long on the earth."

²⁴ The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

¹⁵ Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you.

¹⁶ Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

¹⁷ Your children make haste; your destroyers and those who made you waste shall go forth from you.

¹ > See how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to live together in unity!

³³ Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

⁶ But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female.

⁷ For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife,

⁸ and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two, but one flesh.

⁹ What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

¹⁰ In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter.