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Do not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the fear of the LORD always.

Proverbs 23:17

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.

Certainly there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off.

Proverbs 23:18

For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way.

Proverbs 23:19

Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

Do not be with heavy drinkers of wine, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

Proverbs 23:20

Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

For the heavy drinker and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe one with rags.

Proverbs 23:21

For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

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.

Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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