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Proverbs 2 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:1 - My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:2 - So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:3 - Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:4 - If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:5 - Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:6 - For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:7 - He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:8 - He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:9 - Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:10 - For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:11 - Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:12 - Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:13 - Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:14 - Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:15 - Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:16 - To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:17 - Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:18 - For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:19 - Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:20 - So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:21 - For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 2:22 - But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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