¹⁶ So they sent instructions to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded us before he died, saying,

The Enticement of Sinners

A Father’s Instruction

^4 (A)Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but ^(B)bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

⁹ For they themselves report about us ^[a]as to the kind of ^(A)reception we had with you, and how you ^(B)turned to God ^(C)from ^[b]idols to serve ^[c](D)a living and true God,