Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster. A neighbor who is near is better than a distant brother.

A wise son makes a glad father; but a foolish son brings grief to his mother.

My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine.

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?

If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.

A man of many companions may be ruined, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

May Yahweh our God be with us as he was with our fathers. Let him not leave us or forsake us.

A friend loves at all times; and a brother is born for adversity.

If a man says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who doesn’t love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?

My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

‘You shall not murder.’ ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ ‘You shall not steal.’ ‘You shall not offer false testimony.’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’ And, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

But Yahweh’s loving kindness is from everlasting to everlasting with those who fear him, his righteousness to children’s children, to those who keep his covenant, to those who remember to obey his precepts.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!

Beloved, now we are children of God. It is not yet revealed what we will be; but we know that when he is revealed, we will be like him, for we will see him just as he is. Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

But if anyone doesn’t provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

They said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Children’s children are the crown of old men; the glory of children is their parents.

Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you! Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

Now I beg you, brothers, through the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment.