⁶ Sons' sons `are' the crown of old men, And the glory of sons `are' their fathers.

¹⁷ And the kindness of Jehovah `Is' from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,

¹⁸ To those keeping His covenant, And to those remembering His precepts to do them.

¹⁹ Jehovah in the heavens Hath established His throne, And His kingdom over all hath ruled.

⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

⁹ For a graceful wreath `are' they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

⁹ See life with the wife whom thou hast loved, all the days of the life of thy vanity, that He hath given to thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity, for it `is' thy portion in life, even of thy labour that thou art labouring at under the sun.

²⁷ Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field -- go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy house.

¹⁷ At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

⁴ And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

⁶ Give instruction to a youth about his way, Even when he is old he turneth not from it.

¹⁹ honour thy father and mother, and, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.'

²⁴ A man with friends `is' to show himself friendly, And there is a lover adhering more than a brother!

¹ Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son `is' an affliction to his mother.

¹⁰ And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

³² and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

⁴ and if any widow have children or grandchildren, let them learn first to their own house to show piety, and to give back a recompense to the parents, for this is right and acceptable before God.

¹⁰ Thine own friend, and the friend of thy father, forsake not, And the house of thy brother enter not In a day of thy calamity, Better `is' a near neighbour than a brother afar off.

²⁰ if any one may say -- `I love God,' and his brother he may hate, a liar he is; for he who is not loving his brother whom he hath seen, God -- whom he hath not seen -- how is he able to love?

²⁷ A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, And whoso is hating gifts liveth.

²⁰ Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

² beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;

³ and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.

⁴ Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

¹³ If, then, ye, being evil, have known good gifts to be giving to your children, how much more shall the Father who is from heaven give the Holy Spirit to those asking Him!'

⁸ and if any one for his own -- and especially for those of the household -- doth not provide, the faith he hath denied, and than an unbeliever he is worse.

¹⁵ My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

³¹ and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved -- thou and thy house;'

³ Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah `are' sons, A reward `is' the fruit of the womb.

⁴ As arrows in the hand of a mighty one, So `are' the sons of the young men.

⁵ O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

⁵⁷ `Jehovah our God is with us as He hath been with our fathers; He doth not forsake us nor leave us;

²⁹ Whoso is troubling his own house inheriteth wind, And a servant `is' the fool to the wise of heart.

¹ The children! obey your parents in the Lord, for this is righteous;

² honour thy father and mother,

³ which is the first command with a promise, `That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

²⁴ The father of the righteous rejoiceth greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoiceth in him.

¹⁵ Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.

¹⁶ Lo, on the palms of the hand I have graven thee, Thy walls `are' before Me continually.

¹⁷ Hastened have those building thee, Those destroying thee, and laying thee waste, go out from thee.

¹ A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren -- even together!

³³ but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

⁶ but from the beginning of the creation, a male and a female God did make them;

⁷ on this account shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife,

⁸ and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh; so that they are no more two, but one flesh;

⁹ what therefore God did join together, let not man put asunder.'

¹⁰ And in the house again his disciples of the same thing questioned him,