Honour your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you.
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.
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.
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.
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?
The worthy person is grateful and mindful of benefits done to him. This gratitude, this mindfulness, is congenial to the best people.
