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| | Pro 2:1 | My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
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| | Pro 2:2 | Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;
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| | Pro 2:3 | For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;
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| | Pro 2:4 | If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;
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| | Pro 2:5 | Then you will discern the fear of the Lord And discover the knowledge of God.
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| | Pro 2:6 | For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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| | Pro 2:7 | He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
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| | Pro 2:8 | Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
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| | Pro 2:9 | Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity and every good course.
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| | Pro 2:10 | For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
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| | Pro 2:11 | Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,
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| | Pro 2:12 | To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;
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| | Pro 2:13 | From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;
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| | Pro 2:14 | Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
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| | Pro 2:15 | Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;
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| | Pro 2:16 | To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;
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| | Pro 2:17 | That leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;
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| | Pro 2:18 | For her house sinks down to death And her tracks lead to the dead;
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| | Pro 2:19 | None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
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| | Pro 2:20 | So you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous.
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| | Pro 2:21 | For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it;
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| | Pro 2:22 | But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.
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| Scripture quotations taken from the NASB. |
