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Proverbs 22 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:1 - A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:2 - The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the maker of them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:3 - A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple go on, and suffer for it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:4 - The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:5 - Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who guards himself will keep far from them.
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.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:7 - The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:8 - He who sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:9 - He who has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:10 - Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:11 - He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:12 - The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the faithless.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:13 - The sluggard says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!"
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:14 - The mouth of a loose woman is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:15 - Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:16 - He who oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to want.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:17 - Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:18 - for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:19 - That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:20 - Have I not written for you thirty sayings of admonition and knowledge,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:21 - to show you what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:22 - Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate;
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:23 - for the LORD will plead their cause and despoil of life those who despoil them.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:24 - Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:25 - lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:26 - Be not one of those who give pledges, who become surety for debts.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:27 - If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:28 - Remove not the ancient landmark which your fathers have set.
Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:29 - Do you see a man skilful in his work? he will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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