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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; |
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So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; |
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Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; |
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If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid 1treasures;
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Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. |
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For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. |
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He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. |
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He keepeth the paths of judgment, and 1preserveth the way of his saints.
1 Gen 19:16, 1st Sam 2:9, 1st Chron 16:34, Psa 25:10, Psa 31:23, Psa 32:10, Psa 33:18, Psa 34:22, Psa 97:10, Psa 145:20, Eph 2:4
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Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path. |
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When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; |
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Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: |
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To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; |
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Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; |
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Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; |
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Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: |
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To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; |
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Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God. |
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For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. |
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None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. |
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That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous. |
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For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it. |
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But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it. |