Proverbs Chapter 1 (NKJV)
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1. The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel | |
2. To know wisdom and instruction, To perceive the words of understanding, | |
3. To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment, and equity; | |
4. To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion-- | |
5. A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel, | |
6. To understand a proverb and an enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles. | |
7. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. | |
8. My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother; | |
9. For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck. | |
10. My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. | |
11. If they say, "Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; | |
12. Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit; | |
13. We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil; | |
14. Cast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse"-- | |
15. My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path; | |
16. For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood. | |
17. Surely, in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird; | |
18. But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives. | |
19. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners. | |
20. Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares. | |
21. She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words | |
22. "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge. | |
23. Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. | |
24. Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, | |
25. Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke, | |
26. I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes, | |
27. When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. | |
28. "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. | |
29. Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the Lord, | |
30. They would have none of my counsel And despised my every rebuke. | |
31. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies. | |
32. For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them; | |
33. But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil." |
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