Proverbs — Chapter 2
King James Version · 22 verses
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1My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;→2So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;→3Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;→4If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;→5Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.→6For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.→7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.→8He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.→9Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.→10When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;→11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:→12To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;→13Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;→14Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;→15Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:→16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;→17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.→18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.→19None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.→20That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.→21For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.→22But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.→