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Proverbs

1. 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
2. 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
3. 1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
4. 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
5. 1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
6. 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
7. 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
8. 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
9. 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
10. 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
11. 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
12. 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
13. 1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
14. 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
15. 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
16. 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
17. 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
18. 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
19. 1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
20. 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
21. 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
22. 2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
23. 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
24. 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
25. 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
26. 2:8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
27. 2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
28. 2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
29. 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
30. 2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
31. 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
32. 2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
33. 2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
34. 2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
35. 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
36. 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
37. 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
38. 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
39. 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
40. 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
41. 3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
42. 3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
43. 3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
44. 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
45. 3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
46. 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
47. 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
48. 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
49. 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
50. 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.