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Proverbs 1:2-5
[2]To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

[3]To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

[4]To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

[5]A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Proverbs 1:6
[6]To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Proverbs 1:7
[7]The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:8
[8]My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 1:9
[9]For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Proverbs 1:10
[10]My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Proverbs 1:11
[11]If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Proverbs 1:12
[12]Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Proverbs 1:13
[13]We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Proverbs 1:14
[14]Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

Proverbs 1:15
[15]My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Proverbs 1:16
[16]For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:17
[17]Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

Proverbs 1:18
[18]And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Proverbs 1:19
[19]So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Proverbs 1:20
[20]Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

Proverbs 1:21
[21]She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

Proverbs 1:22
[22]How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:23
[23]Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Proverbs 1:24
[24]Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

Proverbs 1:25
[25]But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Proverbs 1:26
[26]I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Proverbs 1:27
[27]When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Proverbs 1:28
[28]Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

Proverbs 1:29
[29]For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Proverbs 1:30
[30]They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

Proverbs 1:31
[31]Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Proverbs 1:32
[32]For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 1:33
[33]But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.