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Proverbs 2 📜 📕 ↷
Benefits of Wisdom
1 MY son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,📜💬📚
2 that thine ear may hear wisdom: incline thine heart to know prudence.📜💬📚
3 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thine heart to prudence:📜💬📚
4 If thou shalt seek her as money, and as treasures shalt dig her up:📜💬📚
5 then shalt thou understand the fear of our Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God.📜💬📚
6 Because our Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth prudence and knowledge.📜💬📚
7 He will keep the salvation of the righteous, & protect them that walk simply.📜💬📚
8 Keeping the paths of justice, & guarding the ways of Saints.📜💬📚
9 Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.📜💬📚
10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:📜💬📚
11 counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,📜💬📚
12 that thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:📜💬📚
13 who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:📜💬📚
14 who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:📜💬📚
15 whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.📜💬📚
16 That thou mayst be delivered from the strange woman, and from the foreigner, which mollifieth her words,📜💬📚
17 forsaketh the guide of her youth,📜💬📚
18 and hath forgotten the covenant of her God. For her house is bowed down to death, and her paths to hell.📜💬📚
19 All that go in unto her, shall not return, neither shall they apprehend the paths of life.📜💬📚
20 That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.📜💬📚
21 For they that are right, shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.📜💬📚
22 But the impious shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.📜💬📚
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