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| | Pro 4:1 | Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
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| | Pro 4:2 | For I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.
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| | Pro 4:3 | For I was a son to my father, Tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
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| | Pro 4:4 | He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
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| | Pro 4:5 | Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.
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| | Pro 4:6 | Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.
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| | Pro 4:7 | Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.
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| | Pro 4:8 | Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
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| | Pro 4:9 | She will give to your head a garland of grace. She will deliver a crown of splendor to you."
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| | Pro 4:10 | Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.
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| | Pro 4:11 | I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.
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| | Pro 4:12 | When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.
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| | Pro 4:13 | Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
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| | Pro 4:14 | Don't enter into the path of the wicked. Don't walk in the way of evil men.
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| | Pro 4:15 | Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
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| | Pro 4:16 | For they don't sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone 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 like the dawning light, That shines more and more until the perfect day.
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| | Pro 4:19 | The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.
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| | Pro 4:20 | My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.
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| | Pro 4:21 | Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
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| | Pro 4:22 | For they are life to those who find them, And health to their whole body.
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| | Pro 4:23 | Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life.
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| | Pro 4:24 | Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
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| | Pro 4:25 | Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
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| | Pro 4:26 | Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.
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| | Pro 4:27 | Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
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