Chapter
Proverbs 2

Book of Proverbs - Chapter 2

Proverbs 2:1

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

Proverbs 2:2

So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

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Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

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If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

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then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 2:6

For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:7

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

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that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

Proverbs 2:9

Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

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For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Proverbs 2:11

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

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to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

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who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

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who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

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To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

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who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

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for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

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None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

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that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

Proverbs 2:21

For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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