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Proverbs 2:1

My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,

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Proverbs 2:2

Make your ear attentive to wisdom; Incline your heart to understanding.

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Proverbs 2:3

For if you cry out for insight, And raise your voice for understanding;

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Proverbs 2:4

If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;

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Proverbs 2:5

Then you will understand the fear of the LORD, And discover the knowledge of God.

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Proverbs 2:6

For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

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Proverbs 2:7

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

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Proverbs 2:8

Guarding the paths of justice, And He watches over the way of His godly ones.

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Proverbs 2:9

Then you will discern righteousness, justice, And integrity, and every good path.

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Proverbs 2:10

For wisdom will enter your heart, And knowledge will be delightful to your soul;

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Proverbs 2:11

Discretion will watch over you, Understanding will guard you,

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Proverbs 2:12

To rescue you from the way of evil, From a person who speaks perverse things;

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Proverbs 2:13

From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

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Proverbs 2:14

Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

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Proverbs 2:15

Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;

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Proverbs 2:16

To rescue you from the strange woman, From the foreign woman who flatters with her words,

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Proverbs 2:17

Who leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;

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Proverbs 2:18

For her house sinks down to death, And her tracks lead to the dead;

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Proverbs 2:19

None who go to her return, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

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Proverbs 2:20

So you will walk in the way of good people And keep to the paths of the righteous.

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Proverbs 2:21

For the upright will live in the land, And the blameless will remain in it;

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Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked will be eliminated from the land, And the treacherous will be torn away from it.

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