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²²So then, flee from the desires of your youth, yet truly, pursue justice, faith, hope, charity, and peace, along with those who call upon the Lord from a pure heart.

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.

³⁰Charm is false, and beauty is vain. The woman who fears the Lord, the same shall be praised.

⁴Groom to Chorus: I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills.

²⁵Let not your heart desire her beauty; do not be captivated by her winks.

⁹But if they cannot restrain themselves, they should marry. For it is better to marry, than to be burned.

⁵An open rebuke is better than hidden love. ⁶The wounds of a loved one are better than the deceitful kisses of a hateful one.

²⁵But which of you, by thinking, is able to add one cubit to his stature? ²⁶Therefore, if you are not capable, in what is so little, why be anxious about the rest?

²Consider the things that are above, not the things that are upon the earth. ³For you have died, and so your life is hidden with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ, your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. ⁵Therefore, mortify your body, while it is upon the earth. For because of fornication, impurity, lust, evil desires, and avarice, which are a kind of service to idols,

³⁰I am not able to do anything of myself. As I hear, so do I judge. And my judgment is just. For I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me.

²Where there is no knowledge of the soul, there is no good. And whoever hurries with his feet will stumble.

⁸Concerning the rest, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is chaste, whatever is just, whatever is holy, whatever is worthy to be loved, whatever is of good repute, if there is any virtue, if there is any praiseworthy discipline: meditate on these. ⁹All the things that you have learned and accepted and heard and seen in me, do these. And so shall the God of peace be with you.

³¹But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will take up wings like eagles. They will run and not struggle. They will walk and not tire.

⁹So then, rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart remain in what is good during the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart, and with the perception of your eyes. And know that, concerning all these things, God will bring you to judgment. ¹⁰Remove anger from your heart, and set aside evil from your flesh. For youth and pleasure are empty.

³³Therefore, seek first the kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added to you as well.

⁵and height that extols itself contrary to the wisdom of God, and leading every intellect into the captivity of obedience to Christ,

¹⁰He who winks with the eye gives sorrow. And the foolish in lips shall be beaten.

²⁵For what is there for me in heaven? And what do I wish for on earth before you? ²⁶My body has failed, and my heart: O God of my heart, and God my portion, into eternity.