Thematic Bible

Proverbs 2:1

My son, if thou wilt receive my words and hide my commandments within thee

Proverbs 2:2

so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to intelligence,

Proverbs 2:3

yea, if thou criest for understanding and givest thy voice unto intelligence,

Proverbs 2:4

if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures,

Proverbs 2:5

then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 2:6

For the LORD gives wisdom; out of his mouth comes knowledge and intelligence.

Proverbs 2:7

He keeps the person of the upright; he is a buckler to those that walk perfectly,

Proverbs 2:8

keeping the paths of judgment and the way of his merciful ones.

Proverbs 2:9

Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity, yea, every good path.

Proverbs 2:10

When wisdom enters into thine heart and knowledge is sweet unto thy soul,

Proverbs 2:11

discretion shall preserve thee, intelligence shall keep thee

Proverbs 2:12

to deliver thee from the evil way, from the man that speaks perversion,

Proverbs 2:13

who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,

Proverbs 2:14

who rejoice to do evil and delight in wicked perversion,

Proverbs 2:15

whose ways are crooked, and they are crooked in their paths;

Proverbs 2:16

to deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,

Proverbs 2:17

who forsakes the prince of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Proverbs 2:18

Therefore her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

Proverbs 2:19

None that go unto her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life.

Proverbs 2:20

That thou may walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous.

Proverbs 2:21

For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

Proverbs 2:22

But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.