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 perceive the words of understanding;
Proverbs 1:3 (show verse)
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
Proverbs 1:4 (show verse)
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 1:5 (show verse)
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
No Themes for this verse.
Proverbs 1:6 (show verse)
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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Proverbs 1:7 (show verse)
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools 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 shalt be an ornament of grace to 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 the grave; 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)
Cast in thy lot among us; let us 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 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 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; who taketh away the life of its owners.
Proverbs 1:20 (show verse)
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
Proverbs 1:21 (show verse)
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth 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 fools hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:23 (show verse)
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words.
Proverbs 1:24 (show verse)
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
Proverbs 1:25 (show verse)
But ye have set at naught 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 cometh;
Proverbs 1:27 (show verse)
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Proverbs 1:28 (show verse)
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Proverbs 1:29 (show verse)
For that 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 shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 1:32 (show verse)
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Proverbs 1:33 (show verse)
But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.