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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
the Fifth Week after Easter
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Passage Lookup: Proverbs 1:8-9; Proverbs 3:1-2; Proverbs 4:1-13; Proverbs 4:20-22; Proverbs 5:1-2; Proverbs 6:20-23; Proverbs 7:1-3; Proverbs 10:17; Proverbs 19:16; Proverbs 23:22; Proverbs 28:4; Proverbs 28:7; Proverbs 29:18
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Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, And do not ignore your mother's teaching;
Proverbs 1:8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
For they are a graceful wreath for your head And necklaces for your neck.
Proverbs 1:9
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
My son, do not forget my teaching, But have your heart comply with my commandments;
Proverbs 3:1
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
For length of days and years of life And peace they will add to you.
Proverbs 3:2
For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father, And pay attention so that you may gain understanding,
Proverbs 4:1
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
For I give you good teaching; Do not abandon my instruction.
Proverbs 4:2
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
When I was a son to my father, Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,
Proverbs 4:3
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
He taught me and said to me, "Let your heart take hold of my words; Keep my commandments and live;
Proverbs 4:4
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Acquire wisdom! Acquire understanding! Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.
Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
"Do not abandon her, and she will guard you; Love her, and she will watch over you.
Proverbs 4:6
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
"The beginning of wisdom is: Acquire wisdom; And with all your possessions, acquire understanding.
Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
"Prize her, and she will exalt you; She will honor you if you embrace her.
Proverbs 4:8
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
"She will place on your head a garland of grace; She will present you with a crown of beauty."
Proverbs 4:9
She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Listen, my son, and accept my sayings, And the years of your life will be many.
Proverbs 4:10
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
I have instructed you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in upright paths.
Proverbs 4:11
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
When you walk, your steps will not be hampered; And if you run, you will not stumble.
Proverbs 4:12
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Take hold of instruction; do not let go. Guard her, for she is your life.
Proverbs 4:13
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
My son, pay attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
Proverbs 4:20
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
They are not to escape from your sight; Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Proverbs 4:21
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
For they are life to those who find them, And healing to all their body.
Proverbs 4:22
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
My son, pay attention to my wisdom, Incline your ear to my understanding,
Proverbs 5:1
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
So that you may maintain discretion And your lips may comply with knowledge.
Proverbs 5:2
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
My son, comply with the commandment of your father, And do not ignore the teaching of your mother;
Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
When you walk, they will guide you; When you sleep, they will watch over you; And when you awake, they will talk to you.
Proverbs 6:22
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light; And rebukes for discipline are the way of life
Proverbs 6:23
For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.
Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Keep my commandments and live, And my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
Proverbs 7:3
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
One who is on the path of life follows instruction, But one who ignores a rebuke goes astray.
Proverbs 10:17
He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
One who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, But one who is careless of conduct will die.
Proverbs 19:16
He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die.
Listen to your father, who fathered you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.
Proverbs 23:22
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Those who abandon the Law praise the wicked, But those who keep the Law strive against them.
Proverbs 28:4
They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.
He who keeps the Law is a discerning son, But he who is a companion of gluttons humiliates his father.
Proverbs 28:7
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
Where there is no vision, the people are unrestrained, But happy is one who keeps the Law.
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
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