::   Words of Wisdom  :: A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches,     and favor is better than silver or gold. 2 The rich and the poor meet together;     the Lord is the Maker of them all. 3 The prudent sees danger and hides himself,     but the simple go on and suffer for it. 4 The reward for humility and fear of the Lord     is riches and honor and life. 5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked;     whoever guards his soul will keep far from them. 6 Train up a child in the way he should go;     even when he is old he will not depart from it. 7 The rich rules over the poor,     and the borrower is the slave of the lender. 8 Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity,     and the rod of his fury will fail. 9 Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed,     for he shares his bread with the poor. 10 Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out,     and quarr...

::   Words of Wisdom  :: I must go on boasting. Though there is nothing to be gained by it, I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord.  2  I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.  3  And I know that this man was caught up into paradise—whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows—  4  and he heard things that cannot be told, which man may not utter.  5  On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses—  6  though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me.  7  So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, ha messenger ...