Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
Quotes around Verses      |
 Pro 1:1 |
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: |
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Pro 1:2 |
To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, |
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Pro 1:3 |
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; |
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Pro 1:4 |
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth-- |
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Pro 1:5 |
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, |
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Pro 1:6 |
to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles. |
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Pro 1:7 |
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction. |
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Pro 1:8 |
Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, |
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Pro 1:9 |
for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. |
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Pro 1:10 |
My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. |
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Pro 1:11 |
If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason; |
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Pro 1:12 |
like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; |
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Pro 1:13 |
we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder; |
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Pro 1:14 |
throw in your lot among us; we will all have one purse"-- |
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Pro 1:15 |
my son, do not walk in the way with them; hold back your foot from their paths, |
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Pro 1:16 |
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. |
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Pro 1:17 |
For in vain is a net spread in the sight of any bird, |
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Pro 1:18 |
but these men lie in wait for their own blood; they set an ambush for their own lives. |
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Pro 1:19 |
Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors. |
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Pro 1:20 |
Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; |
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Pro 1:21 |
at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: |
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Pro 1:22 |
"How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? |
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Pro 1:23 |
If you turn at my reproof, [fn] behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you. |
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Pro 1:24 |
Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, |
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Pro 1:25 |
because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, |
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Pro 1:26 |
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, |
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Pro 1:27 |
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. |
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Pro 1:28 |
Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me. |
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Pro 1:29 |
Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD, |
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Pro 1:30 |
would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, |
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Pro 1:31 |
therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices. |
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Pro 1:32 |
For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them; |
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Pro 1:33 |
but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease, without dread of disaster." |
ESV Footnotes:
- (1:23) Or Will you turn away at my reproof?
