Two hundred men from Jerusalem went with Absalom as invited guests, going in their innocence as they did not know anything.

The law of Yahweh [is] perfect, reviving life. The testimony of Yahweh [is] firm, making wise [the] simple.

With my lips I have told [of] all the ordinances of your mouth.

to give shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and purpose to the young,

Learn prudence, O simple ones; fools, learn {intelligence}.

The simple will believe every word, but the clever will consider his step.

The simple are adorned [with] folly, but the clever are crowned with knowledge.

"The eye is the lamp of the body. Therefore if your eye is sincere, your whole body will be full of light.

"Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

"Behold, I am sending you out like sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

For [the report of] your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, and I want you to be wise toward what [is] good, but innocent toward what [is] evil.

For [the report of] your obedience has reached to all; therefore I am rejoicing over you, and I want you to be wise toward what [is] good, but innocent toward what [is] evil.

But from him you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom to us from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.

But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.