The laws of the LORD are right, and those who obey them are happy. The commands of the LORD are just and give understanding to the mind.

Your commandment is with me all the time and makes me wiser than my enemies.

I have greater wisdom than those who are old, because I obey your commands.

You are to answer them, "Listen to what the LORD is teaching you! Don't listen to mediums---what they tell you cannot keep trouble away."

So we are even more confident of the message proclaimed by the prophets. You will do well to pay attention to it, because it is like a lamp shining in a dark place until the Day dawns and the light of the morning star shines in your hearts.

Think how far you have fallen! Turn from your sins and do what you did at first. If you don't turn from your sins, I will come to you and take your lampstand from its place.

and you will say, "Why would I never learn? Why would I never let anyone correct me?

If you pay attention when you are corrected, you are wise.

Correction and discipline are good for children. If they have their own way, they will make their mothers ashamed of them.

"Do not bear a grudge against others, but settle your differences with them, so that you will not commit a sin because of them.

Good people may punish me and rebuke me in kindness, but I will never accept honor from evil people, because I am always praying against their evil deeds.

Those who become wise are happy; wisdom will give them life.

my father would teach me. He would say, "Remember what I say and never forget it. Do as I tell you, and you will live.

Always remember what you have learned. Your education is your life---guard it well.

Wise people walk the road that leads upward to life, not the road that leads downward to death.

Then the LORD told me to say to the people, "Listen! I, the LORD, am giving you a choice between the way that leads to life and the way that leads to death.