Proverbs 1:8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33
Proverbs 1:8 NLT
My child, listen when your father corrects you. Don’t neglect your mother’s instruction.
Proverbs 1:9 NLT
What you learn from them will crown you with grace and be a chain of honor around your neck.
Proverbs 1:11 NLT
They may say, “Come and join us. Let’s hide and kill someone! Just for fun, let’s ambush the innocent!
Proverbs 1:12 NLT
Let’s swallow them alive, like the grave; let’s swallow them whole, like those who go down to the pit of death.
Proverbs 1:13 NLT
Think of the great things we’ll get! We’ll fill our houses with all the stuff we take.
Proverbs 1:18 NLT
But these people set an ambush for themselves; they are trying to get themselves killed.
Proverbs 1:21 NLT
She calls to the crowds along the main street, to those gathered in front of the city gate
Proverbs 1:22 NLT
“How long, you simpletons, will you insist on being simpleminded? How long will you mockers relish your mocking? How long will you fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:24 NLT
“I called you so often, but you wouldn’t come. I reached out to you, but you paid no attention.
Proverbs 1:26 NLT
So I will laugh when you are in trouble! I will mock you when disaster overtakes you
Proverbs 1:27 NLT
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone, and anguish and distress overwhelm you.
Proverbs 1:28 NLT
“When they cry for help, I will not answer. Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me.
Proverbs 1:31 NLT
Therefore, they must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on their own schemes.
Proverbs 1:32 NLT
For simpletons turn away from me—to death. Fools are destroyed by their own complacency.