Choose my instruction instead of silver; choose knowledge rather than the finest gold.

If you listen to advice and are willing to learn, one day you will be wise.

Accept the teaching he gives; keep his words in your heart.

I said, "Listen to the LORD, you women, and pay attention to his words. Teach your daughters how to mourn, and your friends how to sing a funeral song.

He tells what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his message.

But whoever accepts his message confirms by this that God is truthful.

And there is another reason why we always give thanks to God. When we brought you God's message, you heard it and accepted it, not as a message from human beings but as God's message, which indeed it is. For God is at work in you who believe.

This is a true saying, to be completely accepted and believed: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. I am the worst of them,

My teaching will give you a long and prosperous life.

Wisdom offers you long life, as well as wealth and honor.

" 'Respect your father and your mother, as I, the LORD your God, command you, so that all may go well with you and so that you may live a long time in the land that I am giving you.

As long as you live, you and your descendants are to honor the LORD your God and obey all his laws that I am giving you, so that you may live in that land a long time.