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Saturday, July 12th, 2025
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Passage Lookup: Proverbs 1

King James Version (1611 Edition)KJA
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Proverbs 1:1
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The Prouerbes of Solomon the sonne of Dauid, King of Israel,
Proverbs 1:2
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To knowe wisedome and instruction, to perceiue the words of vnderstanding,
Proverbs 1:3
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To receiue the instruction of wisdome, iustice, and iudgement & equitie,
Proverbs 1:4
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To giue subtiltie to the simple, to the yong man knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 1:5
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A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels:
Proverbs 1:6
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To vnderstand a prouerbe, and the interpretation; the wordes of the wise, and their darke sayings.
Proverbs 1:7
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The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
Proverbs 1:8
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My sonne, heare the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Proverbs 1:9
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For they shall be an ornament of grace vnto thy head, and chaines about thy necke.
Proverbs 1:10
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My sonne, if sinners entise thee, consent thou not.
Proverbs 1:11
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If they say, Come with vs, let vs lay wait for blood, let vs lurke priuily for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs 1:12
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Let vs swallow them vp aliue, as the graue, and whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
Proverbs 1:13
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Wee shall finde all precious substance, wee shall fill our houses with spoile:
Proverbs 1:14
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Cast in thy lot among vs, let vs all haue one purse:
Proverbs 1:15
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My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them; refraine thy foot from their path:
Proverbs 1:16
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For their feete runne to euil, and make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:17
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Surely in vaine the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Proverbs 1:18
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And they lay wait for their owne blood, they lurke priuily for their owne liues.
Proverbs 1:19
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So are the waies of euery one that is greedie of gaine: which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs 1:20
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Wisedome crieth without, she vttereth her voice in the streets:
Proverbs 1:21
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Shee crieth in the chiefe place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she vttereth her words, saying,
Proverbs 1:22
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How long, ye simple ones, will ye loue simplicitie? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fooles hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23
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Turne you at my reproofe: behold, I will powre out my spirit vnto you, I will make knowen my wordes vnto you.
Proverbs 1:24
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Because I haue called, and yee refused, I haue stretched out my hand, and no man regarded:
Proverbs 1:25
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But ye haue set at nought all my counsell, & would none of my reproofe:
Proverbs 1:26
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I also will laugh at your calamitie, I wil mocke when your feare commeth.
Proverbs 1:27
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When your feare commeth as desolation, and your destruction commeth as a whirlewinde; when distresse and anguish commeth vpon you:
Proverbs 1:28
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Then shall they call vpon mee, but I will not answere; they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me:
Proverbs 1:29
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For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lord.
Proverbs 1:30
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They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproofe.
Proverbs 1:31
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Therefore shall they eate of the fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuices.
Proverbs 1:32
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For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fooles shall destroy them.
Proverbs 1:33
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But who so hearkneth vnto mee, shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from feare of euill.
 
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