Rules for life

These rules are taken from the Catholic bible called the "New American Bible".So come and enjoy them.Maybe they will help you in your journey in life.

Advice concerning women: Sirach(Ecclesiasticus) 9:1-9

1Be not jealous of the wife of your bosom, lest you teach her to do evil against you. 2Give no woman power over you to trample upon your dignity. 3Be not intimate with a strange woman, lest you fall into her snares. 4With a singing girl be not familiar, lest you be caught in her wiles. 5 Entertain no thoughts against a virgin, lest you be enmeshed in damages for her. 6Give not yourself to harlots, lest you surrender your inheritance. 7Gaze not about the lanes of the city and wander not through its squares; 8Avert your eyes from a comely woman; gaze not upon the beauty of another's wife-- Through woman's beauty many perish, for lust for it burns like fire. 9With a married woman dine not, recline not at table to drink by her side, Lest your heart be drawn to her and you go down in blood to the grave.

Care in choosing friends: Sirach(Ecclesiasticus) 11:29-34

29 Bring not every man into your house, for many are the snares of the crafty one; 30 Though he seem like a bird confined in a cage, yet like a spy he will pick out the weak spots. 31 The talebearer turns good into evil; with a spark he sets many coals afire. 32 The evil man lies in wait for blood, and plots against your choicest possessions. 33 Avoid a wicked man, for he breeds only evil, lest you incur a lasting stain. 34 Lodge a stranger with you, and he will subvert your course, and make a stranger of you to your own household.

Duties toward God:Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) Chapter 2

1 My son, when you come to serve the LORD, prepare yourself for trials. 2 Be sincere of heart and steadfast, undisturbed in time of adversity. 3 Cling to him, forsake him not; thus will your future be great. 4 Accept whatever befalls you, in crushing misfortune be patient; 5 For in fire gold is tested, and worthy men in the crucible of humiliation. 6 Trust God and he will help you; make straight your ways and hope in him. 7 You who fear the LORD, wait for his mercy, turn not away lest you fall. 8 You who fear the LORD, trust him, and your reward will not be lost. 9 You who fear the LORD, hope for good things, for lasting joy and mercy. 10 Study the generations long past and understand; has anyone hoped in the LORD and been disappointed? Has anyone persevered in his fear and been forsaken? has anyone called upon him and been rebuffed? 11Compassionate and merciful is the LORD; he forgives sins, he saves in time of trouble. 12 Woe to craven hearts and drooping hands, to the sinner who treads a double path! 13 Woe to the faint of heart who trust not, who therefore will have no shelter! 14 Woe to you who have lost hope! what will you do at the visitation of the LORD? 15 Those who fear the LORD disobey not his words; those who love him keep his ways. 16 Those who fear the LORD seek to please him, those who love him are filled with his law. 17 Those who fear the LORD prepare their hearts and humble themselves before him. 18 Let us fall into the hands of the LORD and not into the hands of men, For equal to his majesty is the mercy that he shows.