³¹ The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

⁵ A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

¹² As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.

²³ Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

⁹ Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

²⁰ He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

²⁰ Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

³ Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

³ Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

⁴ Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.