Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.