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