Proverbs 1

About Proverbs Proverbs collects short sayings of practical wisdom for daily life, rooted in the fear of the LORD.

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;SelectedProverbs 1:1Ask

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;SelectedProverbs 1:2Ask

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;SelectedProverbs 1:3Ask

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.SelectedProverbs 1:4Ask

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:SelectedProverbs 1:5Ask

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.SelectedProverbs 1:6Ask

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.SelectedProverbs 1:7Ask

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:SelectedProverbs 1:8Ask

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.SelectedProverbs 1:9Ask

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.SelectedProverbs 1:10Ask

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:SelectedProverbs 1:11Ask

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:SelectedProverbs 1:12Ask

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:SelectedProverbs 1:13Ask

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:SelectedProverbs 1:14Ask

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:SelectedProverbs 1:15Ask

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.SelectedProverbs 1:16Ask

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.SelectedProverbs 1:17Ask

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.SelectedProverbs 1:18Ask

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.SelectedProverbs 1:19Ask

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:SelectedProverbs 1:20Ask

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,SelectedProverbs 1:21Ask

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?SelectedProverbs 1:22Ask

Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.SelectedProverbs 1:23Ask

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;SelectedProverbs 1:24Ask

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:SelectedProverbs 1:25Ask

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;SelectedProverbs 1:26Ask

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.SelectedProverbs 1:27Ask

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:SelectedProverbs 1:28Ask

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:SelectedProverbs 1:29Ask

They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.SelectedProverbs 1:30Ask

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.SelectedProverbs 1:31Ask

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.SelectedProverbs 1:32Ask

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.SelectedProverbs 1:33Ask

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