¹ My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

¹ My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.

¹ Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:

¹ My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:

⁴⁷ And if any man gives ear to my words and does not keep them, I am not his judge: I did not come to be judge of the world but to give salvation to the world.

⁴⁸ He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

⁵¹ And he went down with them and came to Nazareth; and did as he was ordered: and his mother kept all these words in her heart.

¹⁹ But Mary kept all these words in her heart, and gave much thought to them.

⁴⁴ The kingdom of heaven is like a secret store of wealth in a field, which a man came across and put back again; and in his joy he goes and gives all he has, to get that field.

²¹ Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.

²⁰ My son, give attention to my words; let your ear be turned to my sayings.

²¹ Let them not go from your eyes; keep them deep in your heart.

²² For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.

¹⁰ Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

³ To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

⁹ <BETH> How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.

¹⁰ I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

¹¹ I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

¹² I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.

⁶ Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts;

⁷ Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up.

⁸ Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;

⁹ Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.

¹⁵ It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

⁴⁴ Let these words go deep into your ears, for the Son of man will be given up into the hands of men.