Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth {his} substance.

The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left {to himself} bringeth his mother to shame.

For the time past of {our} life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, {It is} no transgression; the same {is} the companion of a destroyer. {a destroyer: Heb. a man destroying}

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

He that wasteth {his} father, {and} chaseth away {his} mother, {is} a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, {It is} no transgression; the same {is} the companion of a destroyer. {a destroyer: Heb. a man destroying}

And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.

Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth {his} substance.

If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: {of flesh: Heb. of their flesh}

He that wasteth {his} father, {and} chaseth away {his} mother, {is} a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.

But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.