¹ My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

⁸ Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

⁹ and he saith to me, `See -- not; for fellow-servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this scroll; before God bow.'

³ Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it -- for the time is nigh!

²⁰ `Remember the word that I said to you, A servant is not greater than his lord; if me they did persecute, you also they will persecute; if my word they did keep, yours also they will keep;

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

²⁸ And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping `it'!'

¹⁵ `And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain `it', and bear fruit in continuance.

¹⁴ The wise lay up knowledge, and the mouth of a fool `is' near ruin.

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

¹ My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

² To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,

³ For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice,

⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her,

⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

⁶ For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.

⁷ Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly.

²² Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

²⁸ and the reviling, if ye do not hearken unto the commands of Jehovah your God, and have turned aside out of the way which I am commanding you to-day, to go after other gods which ye have not known.