Thematic Bible

Proverbs 1:1

Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel;

Proverbs 1:2

To know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Proverbs 1:3

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment, and uprightness;

Proverbs 1:4

To give craftiness to the simple, and to the youth, knowledge and meditation.

Proverbs 1:5

The wise one will hear and he will add learning: and he understanding, shall obtain guidance:
No Themes for this verse.

Proverbs 1:6

To understand a proverb, and an enigma: the words of the wise and their parables.
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Proverbs 1:7

The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 1:8

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 1:9

For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat

Proverbs 1:10

My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in.

Proverbs 1:11

If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;

Proverbs 1:12

We will swallow them down living, as hades, and whole, as they going down to the pit:

Proverbs 1:13

We shall find precious riches, we will fill our houses with spoil:

Proverbs 1:14

Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all:

Proverbs 1:15

My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:

Proverbs 1:16

For their feet will run to evil, and they will hasten to pour out blood:

Proverbs 1:17

For gratuitously the net was spread in the eyes of all possessing a wing.

Proverbs 1:18

And they will lie in wait for their blood; they will hide for their souls.

Proverbs 1:19

So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.

Proverbs 1:20

Wisdom will cry without; in the broad places she will give her voice:

Proverbs 1:21

She will call in the head of sound, in the entrances of the gates: in the city she will say her words:

Proverbs 1:22

How long, ye simple, will ye love simplicity? and mockers delight to mock for them, and the foolish hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:23

Ye shall turn back at my reproofs: behold, I will pour forth my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.

Proverbs 1:24

Because I called and ye will refuse; I stretched forth my hands, and none attending;

Proverbs 1:25

And ye will reject all my counsels, and ye desired not my reproofs:

Proverbs 1:26

Also I will laugh at your ruin: I will deride in the coming of your terror;

Proverbs 1:27

In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they shall call upon me, and I will not answer; they shall seek me, and shall not find me;

Proverbs 1:29

For that they hated knowledge, and chose not the fear of Jehovah:

Proverbs 1:30

They desired not for my counsels: and derided all my reproofs.

Proverbs 1:31

And they shall eat from the fruit of their way, and be filled with their purposes

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them.

Proverbs 1:33

And he hearing to me shall dwell in confidence, and being quiet from fear of evil.