Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
God created man incorruptible, and made him in the image of his own nature, but through the devil’s envy, death came into the world.
But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice.
Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if is received with thanksgiving: for then it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them. To rust a man who has not been tested and to suspect a man who has proven trustworthy lead alike to endless ills.
For which of you desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
