Proverbs 2
2
Good Things Come From Wisdom
1My son, accept my words.
Store up my commands inside you.
2Let your ears listen to wisdom.
Apply your heart to understanding.
3Call out for the ability to be wise.
Cry out for understanding.
4Look for it as you would look for silver.
Search for it as you would search for hidden treasure.
5Then you will understand how to have respect for the Lord.
You will find out how to know God.
6The Lord gives wisdom.
Knowledge and understanding come from his mouth.
7He stores up success for honest people.
He is like a shield to those who live without blame.
8He guards the path of those who are honest.
He watches over the way of his faithful ones.
9You will understand what is right and honest and fair.
You will understand the right way to live.
10Your heart will become wise.
Your mind will delight in knowledge.
11Good sense will keep you safe.
Understanding will guard you.
12Wisdom will save you from the ways of evil men.
It will save you from men who twist their words.
13Men like that have left the straight paths
to walk in dark ways.
14They take delight in doing what is wrong.
They take joy in twisting everything around.
15Their paths are crooked.
Their ways are not straight.
16Wisdom will save you from a woman who commits adultery.
It will save you from a sinful woman and her tempting words.
17She has left the man she married when she was young.
She has broken the promise she made in front of God.
18Surely her house leads down to death.
Her paths lead to the spirits of the dead.
19No one who goes to her comes back
or reaches the paths of life.
20You will walk in the ways of good people.
You will follow the paths of those who do right.
21Honest people will live in the land.
Those who are without blame will remain in it.
22But sinners will be cut off from the land.
Those who aren’t faithful will be torn away from it.
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Proverbs 2
2
1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
2That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:
3For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:
4If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:
5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God.
6Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.
7He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.
8Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.
9Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.
10If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:
11Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
12That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:
13Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:
14Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:
15Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.
16That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:
17And forsaketh the guide of her youth,
18And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.
19None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,
20That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.
21For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.
22But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.
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