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Proverbs 22 :: King James Version (KJV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:1 - A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:2 - The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:3 - A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:4 - By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:5 - Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:6 - Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:7 - The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:8 - He that soweth iniquity shall reap vanity: and the rod of his anger shall fail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:9 - He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:10 - Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:11 - He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:12 - The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:13 - The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:14 - The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:15 - Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:16 - He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:17 - Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:18 - For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:19 - That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:20 - Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:21 - That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:22 - Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:23 - For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:24 - Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:25 - Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:26 - Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:27 - If thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:28 - Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:29 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
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Proverbs Chapter 22 — 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