⁸ My son, listen to your father's instruction, And don't forsake your mother's teaching:

²⁰ My son, keep your father's commandment, And don't forsake your mother's teaching.

¹ My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

² That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.

¹ Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

² For I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.

³ For I was a son to my father, Tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

⁴ He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

¹ My son, if you will receive my words, And store up my commandments within you;

²⁵ If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.

⁵ having been reminded of the unfeigned faith that is in you; which lived first in your grandmother Lois, and your mother Eunice, and, I am persuaded, in you also.

²² But Jesus, turning around and seeing her, said, "Daughter, cheer up! Your faith has made you well." And the woman was made well from that hour.

² Behold, they brought to him a man who was paralyzed, lying on a bed. Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the paralytic, "Son, cheer up! Your sins are forgiven you."

¹ The words of king Lemuel; the oracle which his mother taught him.

¹⁷ The eye that mocks at his father, And scorns obedience to his mother: The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, The young eagles shall eat it.

¹ My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

¹ My son, don't forget my teaching; But let your heart keep my commandments:

¹⁵ My son, don't walk in the way with them. Keep your foot from their path,

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you, don't consent.

¹⁸ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not listen to them;

¹⁹ then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;

²⁰ and they shall tell the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

²¹ All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shall you put away the evil from the midst of you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

³ "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.