book_id: PRO

book: Proverbs

reference: Proverbs 1:1

text: The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;


reference: Proverbs 1:2

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


reference: Proverbs 1:3

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


reference: Proverbs 1:4

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


reference: Proverbs 1:5

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


reference: Proverbs 1:6

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


reference: Proverbs 1:7

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


reference: Proverbs 1:8

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


reference: Proverbs 1:9

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


reference: Proverbs 1:10

text: ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.


reference: Proverbs 1:11

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


reference: Proverbs 1:12

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


reference: Proverbs 1:13

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


reference: Proverbs 1:14

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


reference: Proverbs 1:15

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


reference: Proverbs 1:16

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


reference: Proverbs 1:17

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


reference: Proverbs 1:18

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


reference: Proverbs 1:19

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


reference: Proverbs 1:20

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


reference: Proverbs 1:21

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


reference: Proverbs 1:22

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


reference: Proverbs 1:23

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


reference: Proverbs 1:24

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


reference: Proverbs 1:25

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


reference: Proverbs 1:26

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


reference: Proverbs 1:27

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


reference: Proverbs 1:28

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


reference: Proverbs 1:29

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


reference: Proverbs 1:30

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


reference: Proverbs 1:31

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


reference: Proverbs 1:32

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


reference: Proverbs 1:33

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