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

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

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

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

⁴⁷ If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn't believe, I don't judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

⁴⁸ He who rejects me, and doesn't receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

⁵¹ And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

¹⁹ But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

⁴⁴ "Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

²¹ Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

²⁰ My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

²¹ Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

²² For they are life to those who find them, And health to their whole body.

¹⁰ Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

³ To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness, justice, and equity;

⁹ How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

¹⁰ With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

¹¹ I have hidden your word in my heart, That I might not sin against you.

¹² I haven't gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

⁶ These words, which I command you this day, shall be on your heart;

⁷ and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

⁸ You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

⁹ You shall write them on the door-posts of your house, and on your gates.

¹⁵ The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

⁴⁴ "Let these words sink into your ears, for the Son of Man will be delivered up into the hands of men."