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✠ Proverbs 2

PROV 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,

PROV 2:2 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:

PROV 2:3 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence:

PROV 2:4 If thou shalt seek her as money, and shalt dig for her as for a treasure:

PROV 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God.

PROV 2:6 Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.

PROV 2:7 He will keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity.

PROV 2:8 Keeping the paths of justice, and guarding the ways of saints.

PROV 2:9 Then shalt thou understand justice, and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

PROV 2:10 If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:

PROV 2:11 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

PROV 2:12 That thou mayst be delivered from the evil way, and from the man that speaketh perverse things:

PROV 2:13 Who leave the right way, and walk by dark ways:

PROV 2:14 Who are glad when they have done evil, and rejoice in most wicked things:

PROV 2:15 Whose ways are perverse, and their steps infamous.

PROV 2:16 That thou mayst be delivered from the strange women, and from the stranger, who softeneth her words:

PROV 2:17 And forsaketh the guide of her youth,

PROV 2:18 And hath forgotten the covenant of her God: for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths to hell.

PROV 2:19 None that go in unto her shall return again, neither shall they take hold of the paths of life,

PROV 2:20 That thou mayst walk in a good way: and mayst keep the paths of the just.

PROV 2:21 For they that are upright shall dwell in the earth, and the simple shall continue in it.

PROV 2:22 But the wicked shall be destroyed from the earth: and they that do unjustly shall be taken away from it.

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