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| | Pro 2:1 | My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
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| | Pro 2:2 | making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
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| | Pro 2:3 | yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
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| | Pro 2:4 | if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;
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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; 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 preserving the way of his saints.
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| | Pro 2:9 | Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
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| | Pro 2:10 | for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
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| | Pro 2:11 | discretion will watch over you; understanding will guard you;
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| | Pro 2:12 | delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
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| | Pro 2:13 | who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
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| | Pro 2:14 | who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil;
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| | Pro 2:15 | men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
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| | Pro 2:16 | You will be saved from the loose woman, from the adventuress with her smooth words,
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| | Pro 2:17 | who forsakes 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 paths to the shades;
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| | Pro 2:19 | none who go to her come back nor do they regain 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 inhabit the land, and men of integrity 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 rooted out of it.
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