Thematic Bible
Proverbs 1:1 (show verse)
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
Proverbs 1:2 (show verse)
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
Proverbs 1:3 (show verse)
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Proverbs 1:4 (show verse)
To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 1:5 (show verse)
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
No Themes for this verse.
Proverbs 1:6 (show verse)
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their riddles.
No Themes for this verse.
Proverbs 1:7 (show verse)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:8 (show verse)
My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
Proverbs 1:9 (show verse)
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.
Proverbs 1:10 (show verse)
My son, if sinners entice you, consent not.
Proverbs 1:11 (show verse)
If they say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:
Proverbs 1:12 (show verse)
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Proverbs 1:13 (show verse)
We shall find all kinds of precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Proverbs 1:14 (show verse)
Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Proverbs 1:15 (show verse)
My son, walk not in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
Proverbs 1:16 (show verse)
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:17 (show verse)
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Proverbs 1:18 (show verse)
And they lie in wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 1:19 (show verse)
So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners.
Proverbs 1:20 (show verse)
Wisdom cries aloud outside; she raises her voice in the open square:
Proverbs 1:21 (show verse)
She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,
Proverbs 1:22 (show verse)
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scoffers delight in their scoffing, and fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23 (show verse)
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Proverbs 1:24 (show verse)
Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Proverbs 1:25 (show verse)
But you have ignored all my counsel, and would have none of my reproof:
Proverbs 1:26 (show verse)
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
Proverbs 1:27 (show verse)
When your terror comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes upon you.
Proverbs 1:28 (show verse)
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Proverbs 1:29 (show verse)
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Proverbs 1:30 (show verse)
They would have none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Proverbs 1:31 (show verse)
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 1:32 (show verse)
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Proverbs 1:33 (show verse)
But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be secure from the fear of evil.