² For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

¹¹ For by me your days will be increased, and the years of your life will be long.

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

¹⁶⁵ Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.

¹⁶ With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.

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.

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.

¹³ Now may the God of hope make you full of joy and peace through faith, so that all hope may be yours in the power of the Holy Spirit.

¹⁷ For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

¹ For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

¹⁹ I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.

²⁰ But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.

²¹ There is no peace, says my God, for the evil-doers.

¹⁷ And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.

²⁷ The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.

¹⁶ Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

⁶ May you see your children's children. Peace be on Israel.

¹¹ Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

¹² What man has a love of life, and a desire that his days may be increased so that he may see good?

¹³ Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

¹⁴ Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

⁴ He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.

²⁶ You will come to your last resting-place in full strength, as the grain is taken up to the crushing-floor in its time.