Listen to my excellent words; all I tell you is right.

Everything I say is true; nothing is false or misleading.

I have written down thirty sayings for you. They contain knowledge and good advice,

and will teach you what the truth really is. Then when you are sent to find it out, you will bring back the right answer.

My teaching will fall like drops of rain and form on the earth like dew. My words will fall like showers on young plants, like gentle rain on tender grass.

All my words are sincere, and I am speaking the truth.

Hear this, everyone! Listen, all people everywhere,

My thoughts will be clear; I will speak words of wisdom.

Jesus answered, "What I teach is not my own teaching, but it comes from God, who sent me.

Whoever is willing to do what God wants will know whether what I teach comes from God or whether I speak on my own authority.

If you give these instructions to the believers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, as you feed yourself spiritually on the words of faith and of the true teaching which you have followed.

He must hold firmly to the message which can be trusted and which agrees with the doctrine. In this way he will be able to encourage others with the true teaching and also to show the error of those who are opposed to it.

And to Solomon he said, "My son, I charge you to acknowledge your father's God and to serve him with an undivided heart and a willing mind. He knows all our thoughts and desires. If you go to him, he will accept you; but if you turn away from him, he will abandon you forever.

But if you and your people ever disobey the laws and commands I have given you and worship other gods,

"But if his descendants disobey my law and do not live according to my commands,

then I will punish them for their sins; I will make them suffer for their wrongs.