³ Don’t ·ever forget kindness and truth [^Llet loyalty and faithfulness abandon you].
    ·Wear [Bind] them ·like a necklace [^Lon your neck].
    Write them on your heart as if on a tablet.

¹⁷ ·Kind [or Loyal] people ·do themselves a favor [benefit themselves],
but cruel people ·bring trouble on themselves [^Lharm their own bodies].

²⁴ Pleasant words are like ·a honeycomb [liquid honey],
·making people happy and healthy [^Lsweet to the taste and healing to the bones].

⁸ Some people get rich by ·overcharging others [^Linterest and surcharge; Ex. 22:25; Deut. 23:20],
but their wealth will be given to those who are ·kind [gracious] to the poor.