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 discern the words of understanding;
Proverbs 1:3 (show verse)
To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness and justice 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)
That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:
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Proverbs 1:6 (show verse)
To understand a proverb, and a figure, The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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Proverbs 1:7 (show verse)
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:8 (show verse)
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 1:9 (show verse)
For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
Proverbs 1:10 (show verse)
My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.
Proverbs 1:11 (show verse)
If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily 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)
Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:
Proverbs 1:15 (show verse)
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; Refrain 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 is the net spread In the sight of any bird:
Proverbs 1:18 (show verse)
And these lay wait for their own blood; They lurk privily for their own lives.
Proverbs 1:19 (show verse)
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs 1:20 (show verse)
Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
Proverbs 1:21 (show verse)
She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
Proverbs 1:22 (show verse)
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23 (show verse)
Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.
Proverbs 1:24 (show verse)
Because I have called, and ye have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man hath regarded;
Proverbs 1:25 (show verse)
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof:
Proverbs 1:26 (show verse)
I also will laugh in the day of your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
Proverbs 1:27 (show verse)
When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on 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 diligently, but they shall not find me:
Proverbs 1:29 (show verse)
For that 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 own way, And be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 1:32 (show verse)
For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
Proverbs 1:33 (show verse)
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without fear of evil.