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Proverbs 1 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:1 - The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:2 - To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:3 - To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:4 - To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:5 - A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:6 - To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:7 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

The Enticement of Sinners

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:8 - My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:9 - For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:10 - My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:11 - If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:12 - Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:13 - We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:14 - Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:15 - My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:16 - For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:17 - Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:18 - And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:19 - So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Wisdom Warns

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:20 - Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:21 - She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:22 - How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:23 - Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:24 - Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:25 - But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:26 - I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:27 - When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:28 - Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:29 - For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:30 - They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:31 - Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:32 - For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 1:33 - But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

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by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
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Proverbs Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras