⁷ Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

⁸ This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

⁹ Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

¹⁰ So put away trouble from your heart, and sorrow from your flesh; because the early years and the best years are to no purpose.

⁸ Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make lepers clean, send evil spirits out of men; freely it has been given to you, freely give.

² My loved one, it is my prayer that you may do well in all things, and be healthy in body, even as your soul does well.

⁸ For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.

¹⁹ Or are you not conscious that your body is a house for the Holy Spirit which is in you, and which has been given to you by God? and you are not the owners of yourselves;

²⁰ For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.

¹² But on hearing this he said, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill.

²⁴ Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

¹² Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.

³ He makes the broken-hearted well, and puts oil on their wounds.

²² A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.