Proverbs 2:1
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
Proverbs 2:2
So that thou incline thy ear to wisdom, [and] apply thy heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3
Yes, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:4
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;
Proverbs 2:5
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:6
For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:7
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs 2:8
He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:9
Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [and] every good path.
Proverbs 2:10
When wisdom entereth into thy heart, and knowledge is pleasant to thy soul;
Proverbs 2:11
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs 2:12
To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;
Proverbs 2:13
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Proverbs 2:14
Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Proverbs 2:15
Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
Proverbs 2:16
To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [who] flattereth with her words;
Proverbs 2:17
Who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Proverbs 2:18
For her house inclineth to death, and her paths to the dead.
Proverbs 2:19
None that go to her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life.
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 shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Proverbs 2:22
But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.