The Book of Proverbs
Prov:4:1: Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Prov:4:2: For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
Prov:4:3: For I was my father's son, tender and only [beloved] in the sight of my mother.
Prov:4:4: He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Prov:4:5: Get wisdom, get understanding: forget [it] not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Prov:4:6: Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
Prov:4:7: Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
Prov:4:8: Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Prov:4:9: She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
Prov:4:10: Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Prov:4:11: I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
Prov:4:12: When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Prov:4:13: Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her; for she [is] thy life.
Prov:4:14: Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men].
Prov:4:15: Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Prov:4:16: For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause [some] to fall.
Prov:4:17: For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Prov:4:18: But the path of the just [is] as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Prov:4:19: The way of the wicked [is] as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Prov:4:20: My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Prov:4:21: Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Prov:4:22: For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Prov:4:23: Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.
Prov:4:24: Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
Prov:4:25: Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Prov:4:26: Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Prov:4:27: Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
The Book of Proverbs
Prov:5:1: My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding:
Prov:5:2: That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.
Prov:5:3: For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
Prov:5:4: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
Prov:5:5: Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
Prov:5:6: Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, [that] thou canst not know [them].
Prov:5:7: Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Prov:5:8: Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
Prov:5:9: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
Prov:5:10: Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;
Prov:5:11: And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
Prov:5:12: And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
Prov:5:13: And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Prov:5:14: I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
Prov:5:15: Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Prov:5:16: Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, [and] rivers of waters in the streets.
Prov:5:17: Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
Prov:5:18: Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
Prov:5:19: [Let her be as] the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
Prov:5:20: And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
Prov:5:21: For the ways of man [are] before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
Prov:5:22: His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Prov:5:23: He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
The Book of Proverbs
Prov:6:1: My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, [if] thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,
Prov:6:2: Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
Prov:6:3: Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.
Prov:6:4: Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
Prov:6:5: Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Prov:6:6: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:
Prov:6:7: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
Prov:6:8: Provideth her meat in the summer, [and] gathereth her food in the harvest.
Prov:6:9: How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
Prov:6:10: [Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
Prov:6:11: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
Prov:6:12: A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.
Prov:6:13: He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
Prov:6:14: Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Prov:6:15: Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.
Prov:6:16: These six [things] doth the LORD hate: yea, seven [are] an abomination unto him:
Prov:6:17: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Prov:6:18: An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
Prov:6:19: A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Prov:6:20: My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Prov:6:21: Bind them continually upon thine heart, [and] tie them about thy neck.
Prov: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.
Prov:6:23: For the commandment [is] a lamp; and the law [is] light; and reproofs of instruction [are] the way of life:
Prov:6:24: To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Prov:6:25: Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Prov:6:26: For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
Prov:6:27: Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
Prov:6:28: Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
Prov:6:29: So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
Prov:6:30: [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
Prov:6:31: But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Prov:6:32: [But] whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
Prov:6:33: A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
Prov:6:34: For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Prov:6:35: He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
The Book of Proverbs
Prov:7:1: My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Prov:7:2: Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
Prov:7:3: Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Prov:7:4: Say unto wisdom, Thou [art] my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
Prov:7:5: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
Prov:7:6: For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Prov:7:7: And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Prov:7:8: Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
Prov:7:9: In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
Prov:7:10: And, behold, there met him a woman [with] the attire of an harlot, and subtle of heart.
Prov:7:11: (She [is] loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Prov:7:12: Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Prov:7:13: So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face said unto him,
Prov:7:14: [I have] peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
Prov:7:15: Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
Prov:7:16: I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved [works], with fine linen of Egypt.
Prov:7:17: I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Prov:7:18: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
Prov:7:19: For the goodman [is] not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Prov:7:20: He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed.
Prov:7:21: With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
Prov:7:22: He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
Prov:7:23: Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
Prov:7:24: Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
Prov:7:25: Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
Prov:7:26: For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong [men] have been slain by her.
Prov:7:27: Her house [is] the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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