The Book of Proverbs

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Chapter 2

1: My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

2: So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

3: Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

4: If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

5: Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

6: For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

7: He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

8: He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

9: Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

10: When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

11: Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

12: To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

13: Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

14: Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

15: Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

16: To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with herwords;

17: Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

18: For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

19: None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

20: That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

21: For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

22: But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Proverbs 3

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