Thematic Bible
Proverbs 2:1 (show verse)
My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you,
Proverbs 2:2 (show verse)
making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3 (show verse)
yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
Proverbs 2:4 (show verse)
if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,
Proverbs 2:5 (show verse)
then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:6 (show verse)
For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Proverbs 2:7 (show verse)
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Proverbs 2:8 (show verse)
guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his saints.
Proverbs 2:9 (show verse)
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Proverbs 2:10 (show verse)
for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Proverbs 2:11 (show verse)
discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
Proverbs 2:12 (show verse)
delivering you from the way of evil, from men of perverted speech,
Proverbs 2:13 (show verse)
who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
Proverbs 2:14 (show verse)
who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perverseness of evil,
Proverbs 2:15 (show verse)
men whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their ways.
Proverbs 2:16 (show verse)
So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
Proverbs 2:17 (show verse)
who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
Proverbs 2:18 (show verse)
for her house sinks down to death, and her paths to the departed;
Proverbs 2:19 (show verse)
none who go to her come back, nor do they regain the paths of life.
Proverbs 2:20 (show verse)
So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs 2:21 (show verse)
For the upright will inhabit the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
Proverbs 2:22 (show verse)
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be rooted out of it.