The Benefits of Wisdom
My son, if you accept my words Pro 3:1Pro 1:3Jhn 12:47-48Pro 4:1Deu 6:6-9Pro 7:1Pro 4:20-22Pro 6:21
and hide my commandments within you,
if you incline your ear to wisdom Pro 23:12Pro 18:1Mat 13:9Psa 119:111-112Psa 90:12Pro 22:17-21Act 17:11Ecc 7:25
and direct your heart to understanding,
if you truly call out to insight Jas 1:5Eph 1:17-18Pro 3:61Ki 3:9-12Psa 25:4-5Psa 119:125Psa 119:1691Ch 22:12
and lift your voice to understanding,
if you seek it like silver Mat 13:44Mat 19:29Pro 16:16Job 28:12-20Job 3:21Pro 8:18-19Ecc 4:8Luk 16:8
and search it out like hidden treasure,
then you will discern the fear of the LORD Pro 1:7Jer 24:71Jn 5:202Ch 1:10-12Jer 32:40-41Luk 10:22Luk 11:9-13Jer 9:24
and discover the knowledge of God.
For the LORD gives wisdom; Eph 1:17-18Jas 1:5Luk 21:15Isa 54:13Job 32:8Psa 119:98Jhn 6:451Ki 3:12
from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; Jas 3:15-17Pro 30:5Psa 84:111Co 3:18-191Co 1:192Ti 3:15-171Co 1:30Pro 28:18
He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
to guard the paths of justice Psa 23:31Sa 2:9Jhn 10:28-29Psa 145:20Psa 66:9Psa 37:23-24Jud 1:24Psa 37:28
and protect the way of His saints.
Then you will discern righteousness Jer 6:16Isa 48:17Mat 7:13-14Psa 143:8-10Pro 1:2-6Jhn 14:6Psa 119:99Psa 25:8-9
and justice and equity—every good path.
For wisdom will enter your heart, Jer 15:16Col 3:16Job 23:12Pro 18:1-2Pro 24:13-14Psa 104:34Psa 119:162Psa 19:10
and knowledge will delight your soul.
Discretion will watch over you, Eph 5:15Pro 4:6Psa 25:21Ecc 10:10Psa 119:9-11Ecc 9:15-18Pro 6:22-24
and understanding will guard you,
to deliver you from the way of evil, 1Co 15:33Pro 13:20Pro 8:132Co 6:17Isa 59:3-5Act 20:30Pro 1:10-19Pro 16:28-30
from the man who speaks perversity,
from those who leave the straight paths Jhn 3:19-20Pro 4:191Jn 2:192Pe 2:20-22Pro 21:161Th 5:5-72Ti 4:10Ezk 18:26
to walk in the ways of darkness,
from those who enjoy doing evil Pro 10:23Rom 1:32Jer 11:151Co 13:6Luk 22:4-5Hos 7:3Zep 3:11Hab 1:15
and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
whose paths are crooked Psa 125:5Pro 21:8Deu 32:5Php 2:15Isa 59:8Isa 30:8-13
and whose ways are devious.
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, 1 Ecc 7:26Pro 22:14Pro 23:27Pro 6:24Pro 7:5-23Gen 39:3-12Neh 13:26-27Pro 29:5
from the stranger 2with seductive words
who abandons the partner of her youth Ezk 16:59-60Ezk 16:8Jer 3:4Mal 2:14-16Pro 5:18
and forgets the covenant of her God.
For her house sinks down to death, 1Co 6:9-11Pro 9:18Eph 5:5Gal 5:19-21Pro 5:4-14Rev 21:8Pro 6:26-35Pro 7:22-27
and her tracks to the departed spirits. 3
None who go to her return Ecc 7:26Psa 81:12Hos 4:14Mat 19:24-26Heb 6:18Jer 13:23Pro 4:18
or negotiate the paths of life.
So you will follow in the ways of the good, Heb 6:123Jn 1:11Jer 6:16Pro 13:20Psa 119:115Psa 119:63Sng 1:7-8
and keep to the paths of the righteous.
For the upright will inhabit the land, Psa 84:11Psa 37:29Psa 37:9Pro 10:30Job 42:12Psa 37:11Psa 37:22Psa 37:3
and the blameless will remain in it;
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, Psa 52:5Deu 7:22Isa 3:10-11Psa 37:28Deu 28:63-64Pro 10:30Psa 145:20Job 18:16-18
and the unfaithful will be uprooted.