6 For he saith, Doth he that speaketh and heareth many things, and is of a ready tongue, suppose that he is righteous? Blessed is he that is born of a woman, that liveth but a few days: use not therefore much speech.
7 Let our praise be of God, not of ourselves; for God hateth those that commend themselves.
8 Let the witness of our good actions be given to us by others, as it was given to the holy men that went before us.
9 Rashness, and arrogance, and confidence, belong to them who are accursed of God: but equity, and humility, and mildness, to such as are blessed by him.
10 Let us then lay hold of his blessing, and let as consider what are the ways by which we may attain unto it.
11 Let us look back upon those things that have happened from the beginning.
12 For what was our Father Abraham blessed? Was it not because that through faith he wrought righteousness and truth?
13 Isaac being fully persuaded of what he knew was to come, cheerfully yielded himself up for a sacrifice. Jacob with humility departed out of his own country, fleeing from his brother, and went unto Laban and served him; and so the sceptre of the twelve tribes of Israel was given unto him.
14 Now what the greatness of this gift was, will plainly appear, if we shall take the pains distinctly to consider all the parts of it.
15 For, from him came the priests and Levites; who all ministered at the altar of God.