² For good learning I have given to you, My law forsake not.

² Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,

⁶ Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips `is' uprightness.

⁷ For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips `is' wickedness.

⁸ In righteousness `are' all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.

⁹ All of them `are' plain to the intelligent, And upright to those finding knowledge.

³⁰ If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

³¹ If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,

³² I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,

³ Of the uprightness of my heart `are' my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.

⁹ holding -- according to the teaching -- to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

⁶ These things placing before the brethren, thou shalt be a good ministrant of Jesus Christ, being nourished by the words of the faith, and of the good teaching, which thou didst follow after,

¹⁶ Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;

¹⁷ if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.

²⁰ Have I not written to thee three times With counsels and knowledge?

²¹ To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.

¹ To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. A Psalm. Hear this, all ye peoples, Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

² Both low and high, together rich and needy.

³ My mouth speaketh wise things, And the meditations of my heart `are' things of understanding.

⁴ And thou sayest, `Pure `is' my discourse, And clean I have been in Thine eyes.'

¹⁹ and if ye turn back -- ye -- and have forsaken My statutes, and My commands, that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them -- then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them,

⁹ `And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.