Proverbs 2:1
My son, if thou will receive my words, and lay up my commandments with thee,
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so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding,
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yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding,
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if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,
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then thou shall understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.
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For Jehovah gives wisdom. Out of his mouth is knowledge and understanding.
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He lays up sound wisdom for the upright, 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 sanctified.
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Then thou shall understand righteousness and justice and equity, yea, every good path.
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For wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge shall be pleasant to thy soul,
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discretion shall watch over thee, understanding shall keep thee,
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to deliver thee 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 thee from the interloping woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,
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who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God
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(for her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead;
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none who go to her return again, nor do they attain to the paths of life),
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that thou may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
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But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.