Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”

Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.

Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.

Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars. She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table. She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city. “Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment. “Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed. . . .

In your days, have you commanded the morning or assigned the dawn its place,

However, from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.”

For no word from God will ever fail.”

If your brother sins against you, go and confront him privately. If he listens to you, you have won your brother over.