1. MY SON, forget not my law or teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
2. For length of days and years of a life [worth living] and tranquility [inward and outward and continuing through old age till death], these shall they add to you.
3. Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart. [Col. 3:9-12.]
4. So shall you find favor, good understanding, and high esteem in the sight [or judgment] of God and man. [Luke 2:52.]