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²¹Fathers, do not provoke your children to indignation, lest they lose heart.

¹⁴Behold, this is the third time I have prepared to come to you, and yet I will not be a burden to you. For I am seeking not the things that are yours, but you yourselves. And neither should the children store up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

⁴And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but educate them with the discipline and correction of the Lord.

⁴Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated. ⁵Charity is not ambitious, does not seek for itself, is not provoked to anger, devises no evil. ⁶Charity does not rejoice over iniquity, but rejoices in truth. ⁷Charity suffers all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.

¹⁰For my father and my mother have left me behind, but the Lord has taken me up.

³⁶And the enemies of a man will be those of his own household.

²⁴For this reason, a man shall leave behind his father and mother, and he shall cling to his wife; and the two shall be as one flesh.

¹⁶For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work. ¹⁷But within the wisdom that is from above, certainly, chastity is first, and next peacefulness, meekness, openness, consenting to what is good, a plenitude of mercy and good fruits, not judging, without falseness. ¹⁸And so the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace.

²⁹Whoever troubles his own house will possess the winds. And whoever is foolish will serve the wise.

⁷Cast all your cares upon him, for he takes care of you.

³⁷Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me. ³⁸And whoever does not take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.

¹Stand firm, and do not be willing to be again held by the yoke of servitude.

¹⁶The senseless immediately reveals his anger. But whoever ignores injuries is clever. ¹⁷He is a sign of justice, who speaks what he knows. But whoever deceives is a dishonest witness. ¹⁸He who makes promises is also jabbed, as if with a sword, in conscience. But the tongue of the wise is reasonable.

³⁷Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

⁸Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!

³By wisdom shall a house be built, and by prudence shall it be strengthened.

⁵But if anyone among you is in need of wisdom, let him petition God, who gives abundantly to all without reproach, and it shall be given to him.

³¹The ear that listens to the reproofs of life shall abide in the midst of the wise.