Thematic Bible
Proverbs 2:1 (show verse)
My son, if you accept my words, and treasure my instructions
Proverbs 2:2 (show verse)
making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding
Proverbs 2:3 (show verse)
if, indeed, 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 like hidden treasure,
Proverbs 2:5 (show verse)
then you will understand the fear of the LORD and learn to know God.
Proverbs 2:6 (show verse)
For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:7 (show verse)
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright and is a shield to those who walk in integrity
Proverbs 2:8 (show verse)
guarding the paths of the just and protecting the way of his faithful ones.
Proverbs 2:9 (show verse)
Then you will understand what is right, just, and upright every good path.
Proverbs 2:10 (show verse)
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Proverbs 2:11 (show verse)
Discretion will protect you; understanding will watch over you,
Proverbs 2:12 (show verse)
delivering you from the way of evil, from men who speak perverse things,
Proverbs 2:13 (show verse)
and from those who abandon the right path to travel along the ways of darkness;
Proverbs 2:14 (show verse)
who delight in doing evil, and rejoice in the perverseness of evil;
Proverbs 2:15 (show verse)
whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways,
Proverbs 2:16 (show verse)
delivering you from the adulteress, from the immoral woman with her seductive words,
Proverbs 2:17 (show verse)
someone who abandoned the companion of her youth and forgot the covenant of her God.
Proverbs 2:18 (show verse)
For her house leads down to death, and her paths down to the realm of the dead.
Proverbs 2:19 (show verse)
None who go to her return, nor do they reach the paths of life.
Proverbs 2:20 (show verse)
This is how you will walk in the way of good men and will keep to the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs 2:21 (show verse)
For the upright will live in the land, and people of 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 uprooted from it.