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| | Pro 1:1 | The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:
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| | Pro 1:2 | To know wisdom and instruction, To discern the sayings of understanding,
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| | Pro 1:3 | To receive instruction in wise behavior, Righteousness, justice and equity;
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| | Pro 1:4 | To give prudence to the naive, To the youth knowledge and discretion,
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| | Pro 1:5 | A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel,
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| | Pro 1:6 | To understand a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles.
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| | Pro 1:7 | The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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| | Pro 1:8 | Hear, my son, your father's instruction And do not forsake your mother's teaching;
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| | Pro 1:9 | Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head And ornaments about your neck.
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| | Pro 1:10 | My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent.
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| | Pro 1:11 | If they say, "Come with us, Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause;
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| | Pro 1:12 | Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
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| | Pro 1:13 | We will find all kinds of precious wealth, We will fill our houses with spoil;
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| | Pro 1:14 | Throw in your lot with us, We shall all have one purse,"
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| | Pro 1:15 | My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your feet from their path,
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| | Pro 1:16 | For their feet run to evil And they hasten to shed blood.
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| | Pro 1:17 | Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net In the sight of any bird;
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| | Pro 1:18 | But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.
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| | Pro 1:19 | So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence; It takes away the life of its possessors.
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| | Pro 1:20 | Wisdom shouts in the street, She lifts her voice in the square;
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| | Pro 1:21 | At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:
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| | Pro 1:22 | "How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing And fools hate knowledge?
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| | Pro 1:23 | "Turn to my reproof, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.
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| | Pro 1:24 | "Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention;
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| | Pro 1:25 | And you neglected all my counsel And did not want my reproof;
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| | Pro 1:26 | I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes,
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| | Pro 1:27 | When your dread comes like a storm And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.
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| | Pro 1:28 | "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me,
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| | Pro 1:29 | Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the Lord.
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| | Pro 1:30 | "They would not accept my counsel, They spurned all my reproof.
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| | Pro 1:31 | "So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way And be satiated with their own devices.
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| | Pro 1:32 | "For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them.
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| | Pro 1:33 | "But he who listens to me shall live securely And will be at ease from the dread of evil."
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
