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12Honor your father and your mother, so that you may have a long life upon the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.
13In the manner of one whom a mother caresses, so will I console you. And you will be consoled in Jerusalem.
6The proverb is: A youth is close to his way; even when he is old, he will not withdraw from it.
15Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to take pity on the child of her womb? But even if she would forget, still I shall never forget you.
8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother, 9so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck.
5calling to mind the same faith, which is in you unfeigned, which also first dwelt in your grandmother, Lois, and in your mother, Eunice, and also, I am certain, in you.
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.
3Behold, the inheritance of the Lord is sons, the reward is the fruit of the womb.
51And he descended with them and went to Nazareth. And he was subordinate to them. And his mother kept all these words in her heart.
4so that they may teach prudence to the young women, so that they may love their husbands, love their children, 5be sensible, chaste, restrained, have concern for the household, be kind, be subordinate to their husbands: so that the Word of God may be not blasphemed.
4I have no greater grace than this, when I hear that my sons are walking in the truth.