1. “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”

2. “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness.”

3. “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.”

4  “For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.”