Proverbs 3:3-13

³Let not mercy and truth forsake thee; but bind them about thy neck:

⁴so shalt thou find favour: and do thou provide things honest in the sight of the Lord, and of men.

⁵Trust in God with all thine heart; and be not exalted in thine own wisdom.

⁶In all thy ways acquaint thyself with her, that she may rightly direct thy paths.

⁷Be not wise in thine own conceit; but fear God, and depart from all evil.

⁸Then shall there be health to thy body, and good keeping to thy bones.

⁹Honour the Lord with thy just labours, and give him the first of thy fruits of righteousness:

¹⁰that thy storehouses may be completely filled with corn, and that thy presses may burst forth with wine.

¹¹My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

¹²for whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and scourges every son whom he receives.

¹³Blessed is the man who has found wisdom, and the mortal who knows prudence.