Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed {are they that} keep my ways.

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Who {is} wise, and he shall understand these {things}? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD {are} right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know {them}, because they are spiritually discerned.

Wherefore {is there} a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing {he hath} no heart {to it}?

And all the people that heard {him}, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.

And all the people that heard {him}, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.