Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

A wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.

Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding. For I give you sound teaching; do not abandon my directive. When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,

Pharaoh was angry with his two officers, the chief cupbearer and the chief baker,

For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peace-loving, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and sincere.

Receive my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than pure gold.

Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. . . .

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.