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Proverbs 2 :: New International Version (NIV)

Moral Benefits of Wisdom

Pro 2:1

Pro 2:1My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,

Pro 2:2

Pro 2:2turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—

Pro 2:3

Pro 2:3indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,

Pro 2:4

Pro 2:4and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,

Pro 2:5

Pro 2:5then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

Pro 2:6

Pro 2:6For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Pro 2:7

Pro 2:7He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,

Pro 2:8

Pro 2:8for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.

Pro 2:9

Pro 2:9Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path.

Pro 2:10

Pro 2:10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Pro 2:11

Pro 2:11Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

Pro 2:12

Pro 2:12Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,

Pro 2:13

Pro 2:13who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,

Pro 2:14

Pro 2:14who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,

Pro 2:15

Pro 2:15whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.

Pro 2:16

Pro 2:16Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,

Pro 2:17

Pro 2:17who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.[fn]

Pro 2:18

Pro 2:18Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.

Pro 2:19

Pro 2:19None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.

Pro 2:20

Pro 2:20Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Pro 2:21

Pro 2:21For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

Pro 2:22

Pro 2:22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
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Or covenant of her God
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