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Proverbs 4 📜 📕 ↷
A Father's Instruction
1 CHILDREN hear ye the father's discipline, and attend that you may know prudence.📜💬📚
2 I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.📜💬📚
3 For I also was the son of my father, tender and as the only-begotten in my mother's sight:📜💬📚
4 and he taught me, & said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my precepts, and thou shalt live.📜💬📚
5 Possess wisdom, possess prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.📜💬📚
6 Leave her not, and she will keep thee: love her, and she will preserve thee.📜💬📚
7 The beginning of wisdom, possess wisdom, and in all thy possession purchase prudence:📜💬📚
8 take her quickly, and she will exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified of her, when thou shalt embrace her.📜💬📚
9 She will give to thy head increase of graces, and with a noble crown she will protect thee.📜💬📚
10 Hear my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.📜💬📚
11 The way of wisdom I will shew to thee, I will lead thee by the paths of equity.📜💬📚
12 Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and running thou shalt not have a stumbling block.📜💬📚
13 Hold discipline, leave it not: keep it, because the same is thy life.📜💬📚
14 Be not delighted in the paths of the impious, neither let the way of the evil please thee.📜💬📚
15 Fly from it, neither pass thou by it: go aside, and forsake it.📜💬📚
16 For they sleep not unless they have done ill: and they take no sleep unless they supplant.📜💬📚
17 They eat the bread of impiety, and drink the wine of iniquity.📜💬📚
18 But the path of the just, as shining light, proceedeth even to perfect day.📜💬📚
19 The way of the impious is darksome: they know not where they fall.📜💬📚
20 My son hear my words, and incline thine ear to my sayings.📜💬📚
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart.📜💬📚
22 For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.📜💬📚
23 With all guard keep thy heart, because life proceedeth from it.📜💬📚
24 Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.📜💬📚
25 Let thine eyes see right things, & let thine eye-lids go before thy steps.📜💬📚
26 Direct the path to thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.📜💬📚
27 Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For our Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse, which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses right, and thy ways he will bring forward in peace.📜💬📚
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