⁹ And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?

²² Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?

¹² Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

³ Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

¹⁸ If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment:

¹⁹ Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

²⁰ And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.

²¹ Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.

¹⁶ Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.

¹⁷ The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.

¹ The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:

⁶ For this cause make yourselves low under the strong hand of God, so that when the time comes you may be lifted up;

¹ Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right.

² Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),

³ So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.

⁴ And, you fathers, do not make your children angry: but give them training in the teaching and fear of the Lord.

⁶ That which has birth from the flesh is flesh, and that which has birth from the Spirit is spirit.

¹⁶ O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.

¹⁶ Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, put a man at the head of this people,

¹⁰ Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

⁷ And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

⁵ God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:

¹⁶ For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

⁷ In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.

⁶ A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?

³⁰ But being a prophet, and having in mind the oath which God had given to him, that of the fruit of his body one would take his place as a king,

³ About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David,

³ For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

⁵ Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

⁷ For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

¹⁰ In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.