³⁵ But wisdom is judged to be right by all her children.

³² Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

³³ Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.

³⁴ Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

³⁵ For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

³⁶ But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

¹⁶ How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

¹⁹ The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.

²⁹ (And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.

⁹ As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

¹⁴ For the natural man is not able to take in the things of the Spirit of God: for they seem foolish to him, and he is not able to have knowledge of them, because such knowledge comes only through the Spirit.

¹⁵ But he who has the Spirit, though judging all things, is himself judged by no one.