Proverbs 2:1 ←
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Proverbs 2:2 ←
So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
Proverbs 2:3 ←
Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
Proverbs 2:4 ←
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
Proverbs 2:5 ←
Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
Proverbs 2:6 ←
For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
Proverbs 2:7 ←
He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
Proverbs 2:8 ←
He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.
Proverbs 2:9 ←
Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
Proverbs 2:10 ←
For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
Proverbs 2:11 ←
Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
Proverbs 2:12 ←
Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;
Proverbs 2:13 ←
Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
Proverbs 2:14 ←
Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
Proverbs 2:15 ←
Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
Proverbs 2:16 ←
To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
Proverbs 2:17 ←
Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
Proverbs 2:18 ←
For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
Proverbs 2:19 ←
Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
Proverbs 2:20 ←
So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.
Proverbs 2:21 ←
For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
Proverbs 2:22 ←
But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
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