Thematic Bible
Proverbs 1:1 (show verse)
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
Proverbs 1:2 (show verse)
For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
Proverbs 1:3 (show verse)
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
Proverbs 1:4 (show verse)
For giving to simple ones -- prudence, To a youth -- knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 1:5 (show verse)
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
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Proverbs 1:6 (show verse)
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
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Proverbs 1:7 (show verse)
Fear of Jehovah is a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
Proverbs 1:8 (show verse)
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
Proverbs 1:9 (show verse)
For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
Proverbs 1:10 (show verse)
My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.
Proverbs 1:11 (show verse)
If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,
Proverbs 1:12 (show verse)
We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down to the pit,
Proverbs 1:13 (show verse)
Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses with spoil,
Proverbs 1:14 (show verse)
Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.'
Proverbs 1:15 (show verse)
My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
Proverbs 1:16 (show verse)
For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:17 (show verse)
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
Proverbs 1:18 (show verse)
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 1:19 (show verse)
So are the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
Proverbs 1:20 (show verse)
Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
Proverbs 1:21 (show verse)
At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
Proverbs 1:22 (show verse)
'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23 (show verse)
Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.
Proverbs 1:24 (show verse)
Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
Proverbs 1:25 (show verse)
And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
Proverbs 1:26 (show verse)
I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,
Proverbs 1:27 (show verse)
When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
Proverbs 1:28 (show verse)
Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
Proverbs 1:29 (show verse)
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
Proverbs 1:30 (show verse)
They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
Proverbs 1:31 (show verse)
And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
Proverbs 1:32 (show verse)
For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.
Proverbs 1:33 (show verse)
And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And is quiet from fear of evil!'