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Proverbs 3 📜 📕 ↷
Trust in the LORD with All Your Heart
1 MY son, forget not my law, and let thy heart keep my precepts.📜💬📚
2 For they shall add thee length of days, and years of life, and to peace.📜💬📚
3 Let not mercy and truth leave thee, put them about thy throat and write them in the tables of thy heart:📜💬📚
4 and thou shalt find grace; and good discipline before God and men.📜💬📚
5 Have confidence in our Lord with all thy heart and lean not upon thine own prudence.📜💬📚
6 In all thy ways think on him, and he will direct thy steps.📜💬📚
7 Be not wise in thine own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil:📜💬📚
8 for it shall be health to thy navel, and watering of thy bones.📜💬📚
9 Honour our Lord with thy substance, and give to him of the first of all thy fruits:📜💬📚
10 and thy barns shall be replenished with fullness, and thy presses shall run-over with wine.📜💬📚
11 My son, cast not away the discipline of our Lord: neither do thou faint when thou art chastised of him:📜💬📚
12 for whom our Lord loveth he chastiseth: and as a father in the son he pleaseth himself.📜💬📚
Blessings of Wisdom
13 Blessed is the man that findeth wisdom, and floweth with prudence:📜💬📚
14 better is the purchasing thereof than merchandise of silver, and her fruit than chief and the purest gold:📜💬📚
15 she is more precious than all riches: and all things that are desired, are not able to be compared with her.📜💬📚
16 Length of days in her right hand, & in her left hand riches and glory.📜💬📚
17 Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths peaceable.📜💬📚
18 She is a tree of life to them that shall apprehend her: and he that shall hold her is blessed.📜💬📚
19 Our Lord by wisdom foundeth the earth, established the heavens by prudence.📜💬📚
20 By his wisdom the depths have broken forth, and the clouds wax thick with dew.📜💬📚
21 My son, let not these things depart from thine eyes: keep the law & counsel:📜💬📚
22 and there shall be life to thy soul, and grace to thy jaws.📜💬📚
23 Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble:📜💬📚
24 if thou sleep, thou shalt not fear: thou shalt rest, and thy sleep shall be sweet.📜💬📚
25 Dread not at sudden terror, and the power of the impious falling upon thee.📜💬📚
26 For our Lord will be at thy side, and will keep thy foot that thou be not taken.📜💬📚
27 Do not prohibit him to do good, that is able: if thou be able, thy self also do good.📜💬📚
28 Say not to thy friend: go, and return; and to morrow I will give to thee: whereas thou mayst give forthwith.📜💬📚
29 Practise not evil against thy friend, when he hath affiance in thee.📜💬📚
30 Contend not against man without cause, whereas he hath done thee no evil.📜💬📚
31 Do not envy an unjust man, nor imitate his ways:📜💬📚
32 because every deluder is an abomination of our Lord, and his communication is with the simple.📜💬📚
33 There is poverty from our Lord in the house of the impious: but the habitations of the just shall be blessed.📜💬📚
34 He shall delude the deluders, and to the mild he will give grace.📜💬📚
35 The wise shall possess glory: the exaltation of fools ignominy.📜💬📚
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