Proverbs 2
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Proverbs 2
The Value of Wisdom
1 #
Prov 4.10
My child, if you accept my words
and treasure up my commandments within you,
2making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding,
3if you indeed cry out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,
4 #
Prov 3.14; Mt 13.44 if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures—
5 #
Prov 1.7
then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.
6 #
1 Kings 3.9, 12; Jas 1.5 For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
7 #
Ps 84.11
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk blamelessly,
8 #
1 Sam 2.9; Ps 66.9 guarding the paths of justice
and preserving the way of his faithful ones.
9 #
Prov 4.18; 8.20 Then you will understand righteousness and justice
and equity, every good path,
10for wisdom will come into your heart,
and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
11prudence will watch over you,
and understanding will guard you.
12It will save you from the way of evil,
from those who speak perversely,
13 #
Jn 3.19
who forsake the paths of uprightness
to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 #
Prov 10.23; Jer 11.15 who rejoice in doing evil
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
15 #
Ps 125.5
those whose paths are crooked
and who are devious in their ways.
16 #
Prov 6.24; 23.27 You will be saved from the loose woman,#2.16 Heb strange woman
from the adulteress#2.16 Heb alien woman with her smooth words,
17who forsakes the partner of her youth
and forgets her sacred covenant,
18 #
Prov 7.27
for her way#2.18 Cn: Heb house leads down to death
and her paths to the shades;
19those who go to her never come back,
nor do they regain the paths of life.
20Therefore walk in the way of the good,
and keep to the paths of the just.
21 #
Ps 37.29
For the upright will abide in the land,
and the innocent will remain in it,
22 #
Deut 28.63; Ps 37.38 but the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.
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