Proverbs 1:1-7 - Prologue

¹ The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. ² To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason: ³ To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour: ⁴ To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose: ⁵ (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:) ⁶ To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

⁷ The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

¹ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

¹ That which was from the first, which has come to our ears, and which we have seen with our eyes, looking on it and touching it with our hands, about the Word of life ² (And the life was made clear to us, and we have seen it and are witnessing to it and giving you word of that eternal life which was with the Father and was seen by us); ³ We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ: ⁴ And we are writing these things to you so that our joy may be made complete.

¹ The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him so that his servants might have knowledge of the things which will quickly take place: and he sent and made it clear by his angel to his servant John; ² Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw. ³ A blessing be on the reader, and on those who give ear to the prophet's words, and keep the things which he has put in the book: for the time is near.