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| | Pro 4:1 | Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence;
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| | Pro 4:2 | for I give you good doctrine: forsake ye not my law.
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| | Pro 4:3 | For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.
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| | Pro 4:4 | And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thy heart retain my words; keep my commandments and live.
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| | Pro 4:5 | Get wisdom, get intelligence: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
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| | Pro 4:6 | Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee; love her, and she shall preserve thee.
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| | Pro 4:7 | The beginning of wisdom [is], Get wisdom; and with all thy getting get intelligence.
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| | Pro 4:8 | Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her.
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| | Pro 4:9 | She shall give to thy head a garland of grace; a crown of glory will she bestow upon thee.
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| | Pro 4:10 | Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be multiplied.
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| | Pro 4:11 | I will teach thee in the way of wisdom, I will lead thee in paths of uprightness.
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| | Pro 4:12 | When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
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| | Pro 4:13 | Take fast hold of instruction, let [her] not go: keep her, for she is thy life.
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| | Pro 4:14 | Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men]:
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| | Pro 4:15 | avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
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| | Pro 4:16 | For they sleep not except they have done mischief, and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some] to fall.
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| | Pro 4:17 | For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
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| | Pro 4:18 | But the path of the righteous is as the shining light, going on and brightening until the day be fully come.
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| | Pro 4:19 | The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
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| | Pro 4:20 | My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
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| | Pro 4:21 | Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thy heart.
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| | Pro 4:22 | For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
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| | Pro 4:23 | Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.
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| | Pro 4:24 | Put away from thee perverseness of mouth, and corrupt lips put far from thee.
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| | Pro 4:25 | Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
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| | Pro 4:26 | Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be well-ordered.
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| | Pro 4:27 | Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy foot from evil.
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