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 chastening; to understand prudent words;
Proverbs 1:3 (show verse)
to receive the chastening of prudence, justice, judgment, and equity;
Proverbs 1:4 (show verse)
to give prudence to the simple, and to the young men knowledge and council.
Proverbs 1:5 (show verse)
If the wise will hear them, doctrine shall increase, and the man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:
No Themes for this verse.
Proverbs 1:6 (show verse)
To understand a parable and the interpretation; the words of the wise and their enigmas.
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Proverbs 1:7 (show verse)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and chastening.
Proverbs 1:8 (show verse)
My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 1:9 (show verse)
For they shall be an increase of grace unto thy head and protection about thy neck.
Proverbs 1:10 (show verse)
My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.
Proverbs 1:11 (show verse)
If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush 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 kinds of riches, we shall fill our houses with spoil.
Proverbs 1:14 (show verse)
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
Proverbs 1:15 (show verse)
My son, do not walk in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Proverbs 1:16 (show verse)
For their feet shall run to evil and make haste to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:17 (show verse)
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Proverbs 1:18 (show verse)
And they lay in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own souls.
Proverbs 1:19 (show verse)
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which takes away the life of those who possess it.
Proverbs 1:20 (show verse)
Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
Proverbs 1:21 (show verse)
She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the entrance to the gates of the city she utters her words, saying,
Proverbs 1:22 (show verse)
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and the fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23 (show verse)
Return at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Proverbs 1:24 (show verse)
Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one responded;
Proverbs 1:25 (show verse)
for because ye have disregarded all my counsel and rejected my reproof:
Proverbs 1:26 (show verse)
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;
Proverbs 1:27 (show verse)
when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.
Proverbs 1:28 (show verse)
Then they shall call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Proverbs 1:29 (show verse)
Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
Proverbs 1:30 (show verse)
They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Proverbs 1:31 (show verse)
Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own counsel.
Proverbs 1:32 (show verse)
For the rest of the ignorant shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Proverbs 1:33 (show verse)
But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely and shall rest from the fear of evil.