²⁶ Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

³⁷ `He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

³⁸ and whoever doth not receive his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

² O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.

⁹ `Beth.' With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe -- according to Thy word.

¹⁰ With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.

¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

⁴³ Who `is' wise, and observeth these? They understand the kind acts of Jehovah!

⁵ and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

¹⁷ that the Christ may dwell through the faith in your hearts, in love having been rooted and founded,

²³ Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it `are' the outgoings of life.

⁴ And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.

¹ My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

¹⁹ And we have more firm the prophetic word, to which we do well giving heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, till day may dawn, and a morning star may arise -- in your hearts;

⁵ and not according as we expected, but themselves they did give first to the Lord, and to us, through the will of God,

¹⁴ for the love of the Christ doth constrain us, having judged thus: that if one for all died, then the whole died,

¹⁵ and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

²⁶ `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

⁹ Who `is' wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!

²⁵ Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

²⁶ Ponder thou the path of thy feet, And all thy ways `are' established.

²⁷ Incline not `to' the right or to the left, Turn aside thy foot from evil!