Thematic Bible
Proverbs 1:1 (show verse)
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
Proverbs 1:2 (show verse)
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
Proverbs 1:3 (show verse)
to receive the instruction of wisdom, righteousness 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)
He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
No Themes for this verse.
Proverbs 1:6 (show verse)
to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
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Proverbs 1:7 (show verse)
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:8 (show verse)
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
Proverbs 1:9 (show verse)
for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Proverbs 1:10 (show verse)
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.
Proverbs 1:11 (show verse)
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
Proverbs 1:12 (show verse)
let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Proverbs 1:13 (show verse)
we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Proverbs 1:14 (show verse)
cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
Proverbs 1:15 (show verse)
my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
Proverbs 1:16 (show verse)
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:17 (show verse)
For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
Proverbs 1:18 (show verse)
And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
Proverbs 1:19 (show verse)
So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
Proverbs 1:20 (show verse)
Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
Proverbs 1:21 (show verse)
she calleth in the chief place of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
Proverbs 1:22 (show verse)
How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23 (show verse)
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.
Proverbs 1:24 (show verse)
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;
Proverbs 1:25 (show verse)
and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
Proverbs 1:26 (show verse)
I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;
Proverbs 1:27 (show verse)
when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
Proverbs 1:28 (show verse)
then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
Proverbs 1:29 (show verse)
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
Proverbs 1:30 (show verse)
they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:
Proverbs 1:31 (show verse)
therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their 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 the foolish shall cause them to perish.
Proverbs 1:33 (show verse)
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.