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Proverbs 2:1

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

Proverbs 2:1

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

Proverbs 2:2

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

Proverbs 2:2

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

Proverbs 2:3

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

Proverbs 2:3

Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

Proverbs 2:4

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

Proverbs 2:4

If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

Proverbs 2:5

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

Proverbs 2:5

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord , and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 2:6

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

Proverbs 2:6

For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:7

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

Proverbs 2:7

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

Proverbs 2:8

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

Proverbs 2:8

He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

Proverbs 2:9

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

Proverbs 2:9

Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

Proverbs 2:10

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

Proverbs 2:10

When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

Proverbs 2:11

Discretion will watch over you, Understanding will guard you,

Proverbs 2:11

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Proverbs 2:12

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

Proverbs 2:12

To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

Proverbs 2:13

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

Proverbs 2:13

Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Proverbs 2:14

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

Proverbs 2:14

Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

Proverbs 2:15

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

Proverbs 2:15

Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

Proverbs 2:16

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

Proverbs 2:16

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

Proverbs 2:17

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

Proverbs 2:17

Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

Proverbs 2:18

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

Proverbs 2:18

For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

Proverbs 2:19

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

Proverbs 2:19

None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

Proverbs 2:20

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

Proverbs 2:20

That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Proverbs 2:21

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

Proverbs 2:21

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

Proverbs 2:22

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

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

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