She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words:

Yes, if you cry out for discernment, [And] lift up your voice for understanding,

If you seek her as silver, And search for her as [for] hidden treasures;

One [thing] I have desired of the LORD, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the LORD All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the LORD, And to inquire in His temple.

For a day in Your courts [is] better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Those who are planted in the house of the LORD Shall flourish in the courts of our God.

" Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:

And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.

And she had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word.

But He said, "More than that, blessed [are] those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.

"And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.

These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily [to find out] whether these things were so.

Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.

for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.