Thematic Bible

Proverbs 1:1

The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David king of Israel:

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To learn wisdom, instruction, understanding, prudence,

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righteousness, judgment and equity.

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That the very babes might have wit, and that young men might have knowledge and understanding.

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By hearing, the wise man shall come by more wisdom:
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and he that is endued with understanding shall obtain wit to perceive a parable, and the interpretation thereof; the words of the wise, and the dark speeches of the same.
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The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck.

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My son, consent not unto sinners,

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if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:

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Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit.

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So shall we find all manner of costly riches, and fill our houses with spoils.

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Cast in thy lot among us, we shall have all one purse."

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My son, walk not thou with them, refrain thy foot from their ways.

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For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood.

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But in vain is the net laid forth before the bird's eyes.

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Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.

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These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

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Wisdom crieth without and putteth forth her voice in the streets.

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She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and showeth her words through the city, saying,

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"O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge?

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O turn you unto my correction: lo, I will express my mind unto you, and make you understand my words.

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Seeing then that I have called, and ye refused it: I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded it,

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but all my counsels have ye despised and set my corrections to naught.

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Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you:

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even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you.

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Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.

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And that because they hated knowledge, and received not the fear of the LORD,

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but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction.

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Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels:

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for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction.

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But who so hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and have enough without any fear of evil."