¹² Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

² So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

³ Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

⁴ If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

⁵ Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

⁶ For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

¹ My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:

² So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.

¹⁷ Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

¹⁹ Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.

³¹ And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

⁵² And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.

²¹ For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation.

²² But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.

²³ Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass;

²⁴ For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.

²⁵ But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.