1 Kings 20:11

¹¹ And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.

Proverbs 1:1

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

Proverbs 1:2

² To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

Proverbs 1:3

³ To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

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⁴ To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

Proverbs 1:5

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

Proverbs 1:6

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

Proverbs 1:7

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

Proverbs 1:8

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

Proverbs 1:9

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

Proverbs 2:1

¹ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

Proverbs 2:2

² So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

Proverbs 2:3

³ Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

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⁴ If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

Proverbs 2:5

⁵ Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 2:6

⁶ For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:7

⁷ He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

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⁸ He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

Proverbs 2:9

⁹ Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

Proverbs 3:1

¹ My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

Proverbs 3:2

² For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

Proverbs 3:3

³ Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

Proverbs 3:4

⁴ So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 3:5

⁵ Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

Proverbs 3:6

⁶ In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 3:7

⁷ Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

Proverbs 3:8

⁸ It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

Proverbs 3:9

⁹ Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

Proverbs 4:1

¹ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Proverbs 4:2

² For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

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³ For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

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⁴ He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

Proverbs 4:5

⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:6

⁶ Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

Proverbs 4:7

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

Proverbs 4:8

⁸ Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

Proverbs 4:9

⁹ She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

Proverbs 5:1

¹ My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

Proverbs 5:2

² That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

Proverbs 5:3

³ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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⁴ But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

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⁵ Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

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⁶ Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

Proverbs 5:7

⁷ Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 5:8

⁸ Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

Proverbs 5:9

⁹ Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

Proverbs 6:1

¹ My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger,

Proverbs 6:2

² Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Proverbs 6:3

³ Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

Proverbs 6:4

⁴ Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

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⁵ Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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⁶ Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

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⁷ Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,

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⁸ Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

Proverbs 6:9

⁹ How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?

Proverbs 7:1

¹ My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

Proverbs 7:2

² Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Proverbs 7:3

³ Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

Proverbs 7:4

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

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⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

Proverbs 7:6

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

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⁷ And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

Proverbs 7:8

⁸ Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

Proverbs 7:9

⁹ In the twilight, in the evening, evening, in the black and dark night:

Proverbs 9:1

¹ Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

Proverbs 9:2

² She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

Proverbs 9:3

³ She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,

Proverbs 9:4

⁴ Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

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⁵ Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

Proverbs 9:6

⁶ Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Proverbs 9:7

⁷ He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

Proverbs 9:8

⁸ Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Proverbs 1:10

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Proverbs 1:11

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

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

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

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

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

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¹⁶ For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:17

¹⁷ Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. bird.

Proverbs 1:18

¹⁸ And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Proverbs 1:19

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

Proverbs 1:20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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²⁶ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Proverbs 1:27

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

Proverbs 1:28

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

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

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

Proverbs 1:31

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

Proverbs 1:32

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

Proverbs 1:33

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

Proverbs 10:1

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 10:2

² Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 10:4

⁴ He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Proverbs 10:5

⁵ He that gathereth in summer is a wise son: but he that sleepeth in harvest is a son that causeth shame.

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