My son, if you will receive my words, Pro 3:1Pro 1:3Jhn 12:47-48Pro 4:1Deu 6:6-9Pro 7:1Pro 4:20-22Pro 6:21
and store up my commandments within you,
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, Pro 23:12Pro 18:1Mat 13:9Psa 119:111-112Psa 90:12Pro 22:17-21Act 17:11Ecc 7:25
and apply your heart to understanding;
yes, if you call out for discernment, Jas 1:5Eph 1:17-18Pro 3:61Ki 3:9-12Psa 25:4-5Psa 119:125Psa 119:1691Ch 22:12
and lift up your voice for understanding;
if you seek her as silver, Mat 13:44Mat 19:29Pro 16:16Job 28:12-20Job 3:21Pro 8:18-19Ecc 4:8Luk 16:8
and search for her as for hidden treasures;
then you will understand 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 find the knowledge of God. 1
For the LORD gives wisdom. Eph 1:17-18Jas 1:5Luk 21:15Isa 54:13Job 32:8Psa 119:98Jhn 6:451Ki 3:12
Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
He lays 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 in integrity,
that he may 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 preserve the way of his saints.
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Jer 6:16Isa 48:17Mat 7:13-14Psa 143:8-10Pro 1:2-6Jhn 14:6Psa 119:99Psa 25:8-9
equity and every good path.
For wisdom will enter into your heart. Jer 15:16Col 3:16Job 23:12Pro 18:1-2Pro 24:13-14Psa 104:34Psa 119:162Psa 19:10
Knowledge will be pleasant to 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
Understanding will keep 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 men who speak perverse things,
who forsake the paths of uprightness, 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,
who rejoice to do evil, Pro 10:23Rom 1:32Jer 11:151Co 13:6Luk 22:4-5Hos 7:3Zep 3:11Hab 1:15
and delight in the perverseness of evil,
who are crooked in their ways, Psa 125:5Pro 21:8Deu 32:5Php 2:15Isa 59:8Isa 30:8-13
and wayward in their paths,
to deliver you from the strange woman, Ecc 7:26Pro 22:14Pro 23:27Pro 6:24Pro 7:5-23Gen 39:3-12Neh 13:26-27Pro 29:5
even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,
who forsakes the friend 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 leads 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
her paths to the departed spirits.
None who go to her return again, Ecc 7:26Psa 81:12Hos 4:14Mat 19:24-26Heb 6:18Jer 13:23Pro 4:18
neither do they attain to the paths of life.
Therefore walk in the way of good men, Heb 6:123Jn 1:11Jer 6:16Pro 13:20Psa 119:115Psa 119:63Sng 1:7-8
and keep the paths of the righteous.
For the upright will dwell in the land. Psa 84:11Psa 37:29Psa 37:9Pro 10:30Job 42:12Psa 37:11Psa 37:22Psa 37:3
The perfect 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
The treacherous will be rooted out of it.