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

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

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:

¹³ And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.

³² He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.

³³ He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.

²⁰ But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.

²⁰ Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.

¹⁰ Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.

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

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

²² Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.

² So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

¹⁶ Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.