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| | Pro 2:1 | My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
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| | Pro 2:2 | turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding,
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| | Pro 2:3 | and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
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| | Pro 2:4 | and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
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| | Pro 2:5 | then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
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| | Pro 2:6 | For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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| | Pro 2:7 | He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
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| | Pro 2:8 | for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.
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| | Pro 2:9 | Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path.
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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 protect you, and understanding will guard you.
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| | Pro 2:12 | Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
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| | Pro 2:13 | who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways,
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| | Pro 2:14 | who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness 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 | It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words,
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| | Pro 2:17 | who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
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| | Pro 2:18 | For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
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| | Pro 2:19 | None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
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| | Pro 2:20 | Thus you will walk in the ways 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 unfaithful will be torn from it.
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