²⁴ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

⁷ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

¹ Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

³² And now, ye sons, hearken to me, Yea, happy are they who keep my ways.

³³ Hear instruction, and be wise, and slight not.

¹⁴ Not `as' putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

¹⁵ for if a myriad of child-conductors ye may have in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus, through the good news, I -- I did beget you;

¹⁹ my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

¹ My little children, these things I write to you, that ye may not sin: and if any one may sin, an advocate we have with the Father, Jesus Christ, a righteous one,