Thematic Bible
Proverbs 2:1 (show verse)
My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
Proverbs 2:2 (show verse)
by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,
Proverbs 2:3 (show verse)
indeed, if you call out for discernment -- 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 how to fear the Lord, and you will discover knowledge about God.
Proverbs 2:6 (show verse)
For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:7 (show verse)
He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,
Proverbs 2:8 (show verse)
to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.
Proverbs 2:9 (show verse)
Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity -- every good way.
Proverbs 2:10 (show verse)
For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
Proverbs 2:11 (show verse)
Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
Proverbs 2:12 (show verse)
to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,
Proverbs 2:13 (show verse)
who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
Proverbs 2:14 (show verse)
who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;
Proverbs 2:15 (show verse)
whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
Proverbs 2:16 (show verse)
to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;
Proverbs 2:17 (show verse)
who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.
Proverbs 2:18 (show verse)
For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.
Proverbs 2:19 (show verse)
None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
Proverbs 2:20 (show verse)
So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs 2:21 (show verse)
For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
Proverbs 2:22 (show verse)
but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.