| 2 | Proverbs | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, | The rewards of Wisdom. Pr.2.1-22 | ||
| making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; | |||
| yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, | |||
| if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures; | |||
| then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. | |||
| For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding; | |||
| he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, | |||
| guarding the paths of justice and preserving the way of his saints. | |||
| Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path; | |||
| for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul; | |||
| discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you; | |||
| delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech, | |||
| who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, | |||
| who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil; | |||
| men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways. | |||
| You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words, | |||
| who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; | |||
| for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the shades; | |||
| none who go to her come back nor do they regain the paths of life. | |||
| So you will walk in the way of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous. | |||
| For the upright will inhabit the land, and men of integrity will remain in it; | |||
| but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it. | |||
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