Thematic Bible
Proverbs 1:1 (show verse)
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David king of Israel:
Proverbs 1:2 (show verse)
To learn wisdom, instruction, understanding, prudence,
Proverbs 1:3 (show verse)
righteousness, judgment and equity.
Proverbs 1:4 (show verse)
That the very babes might have wit, and that young men might have knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 1:5 (show verse)
By hearing, the wise man shall come by more wisdom:
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Proverbs 1:6 (show verse)
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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Proverbs 1:7 (show verse)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:8 (show verse)
My son, hear thy father's doctrine, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Proverbs 1:9 (show verse)
for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck.
Proverbs 1:10 (show verse)
My son, consent not unto sinners,
Proverbs 1:11 (show verse)
if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:
Proverbs 1:12 (show verse)
Let us swallow them up like the hell, let us devour them quick and whole, as those that go down into the pit.
Proverbs 1:13 (show verse)
So shall we find all manner of costly riches, and fill our houses with spoils.
Proverbs 1:14 (show verse)
Cast in thy lot among us, we shall have all one purse."
Proverbs 1:15 (show verse)
My son, walk not thou with them, refrain thy foot from their ways.
Proverbs 1:16 (show verse)
For their feet run to evil, and are hasty to shed blood.
Proverbs 1:17 (show verse)
But in vain is the net laid forth before the bird's eyes.
Proverbs 1:18 (show verse)
Yea, they themselves lay wait one for another's blood, and one of them would slay another.
Proverbs 1:19 (show verse)
These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.
Proverbs 1:20 (show verse)
Wisdom crieth without and putteth forth her voice in the streets.
Proverbs 1:21 (show verse)
She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and showeth her words through the city, saying,
Proverbs 1:22 (show verse)
"O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23 (show verse)
O turn you unto my correction: lo, I will express my mind unto you, and make you understand my words.
Proverbs 1:24 (show verse)
Seeing then that I have called, and ye refused it: I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded it,
Proverbs 1:25 (show verse)
but all my counsels have ye despised and set my corrections to naught.
Proverbs 1:26 (show verse)
Therefore shall I also laugh in your destruction, and mock you, when the thing that ye fear cometh upon you:
Proverbs 1:27 (show verse)
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.
Proverbs 1:28 (show verse)
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.
Proverbs 1:29 (show verse)
And that because they hated knowledge, and received not the fear of the LORD,
Proverbs 1:30 (show verse)
but abhorred my counsel, and despised my correction.
Proverbs 1:31 (show verse)
Therefore shall they eat the fruits of their own way, and be filled with their own counsels:
Proverbs 1:32 (show verse)
for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction.
Proverbs 1:33 (show verse)
But who so hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and have enough without any fear of evil."