My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
If anyone hears my words and does not keep them, I do not judge him; for I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;
And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 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. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.
My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck.
How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
I have not departed from the commandment of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my portion of food.
Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
“Let these words sink into your ears: The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”
And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
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