Thematic Bible
Proverbs 2:1 (show verse)
My son, take my words to heart and treasure my commandments within you.
Proverbs 2:2 (show verse)
Pay close attention to wisdom, and let your [mind and] heart (inner being) reach for discernment.
Proverbs 2:3 (show verse)
Call out for insight. Lift up your voice for understanding.
Proverbs 2:4 (show verse)
Search for wisdom as if it were silver. Hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure!
Proverbs 2:5 (show verse)
If you do these things you will have respect for Jehovah and you will find the true knowledge of God!
Proverbs 2:6 (show verse)
Jehovah gives wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:7 (show verse)
He stores up insightful (sound) (substantial) wisdom for the upright. He is a shield for those who walk in integrity.
Proverbs 2:8 (show verse)
He guards those on paths of justice. He watches over the way of his godly ones.
Proverbs 2:9 (show verse)
You will understand righteousness and justice. You will have equity and every good course in life.
Proverbs 2:10 (show verse)
Wisdom enters your heart. Knowledge gives you pleasure.
Proverbs 2:11 (show verse)
Discretion will protect you. Understanding will watch over you.
Proverbs 2:12 (show verse)
It will deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things.
Proverbs 2:13 (show verse)
Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness?
Proverbs 2:14 (show verse)
Who rejoice in doing evil? They delight in the perversity of the wicked.
Proverbs 2:15 (show verse)
The wicked are crooked. They are devious in their ways.
Proverbs 2:16 (show verse)
You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk.
Proverbs 2:17 (show verse)
She is unfaithful to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows to God.
Proverbs 2:18 (show verse)
If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the dead.
Proverbs 2:19 (show verse)
No one who visits her ever comes back. He cannot return to the road to life.
Proverbs 2:20 (show verse)
You must follow the example of good people and live a righteous life.
Proverbs 2:21 (show verse)
The upright will live in the land. The blameless people of integrity will remain.
Proverbs 2:22 (show verse)
The wicked will be cut off from the land. The unfaithful will be uprooted.