'Sayings' in the Bible

For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,

For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.

At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:

My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

To deliver thee from the strange woman, From the stranger who hath made smooth her sayings,

Get wisdom, get understanding, Do not forget, nor turn away From the sayings of my mouth.

Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee.

My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.

An abomination to Jehovah are thoughts of wickedness, And pure are sayings of pleasantness.

Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

To cause thee to know the certainty of sayings of truth, To return sayings of truth to those sending thee.

Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.