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nkjv@Proverbs:1:1 @ The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel:

nkjv@Proverbs:1:2 @ To know wisdom and instruction, To perceive the words of understanding,

nkjv@Proverbs:1:3 @ To receive the instruction of wisdom, Justice, judgment, and equity;

nkjv@Proverbs:1:4 @ To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion--

nkjv@Proverbs:1:5 @ A wise man will hear and increase learning, And a man of understanding will attain wise counsel,

nkjv@Proverbs:1:6 @ To understand a proverb and an enigma, The words of the wise and their riddles.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:7 @ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:8 @ My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother;

nkjv@Proverbs:1:9 @ For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:10 @ My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:11 @ If they say, "Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

nkjv@Proverbs:1:12 @ Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down to the Pit;

nkjv@Proverbs:1:13 @ We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil;

nkjv@Proverbs:1:14 @ Cast in your lot among us, Let us all have one purse"--

nkjv@Proverbs:1:15 @ My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path;

nkjv@Proverbs:1:16 @ For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:17 @ Surely, in vain the net is spread In the sight of any bird;

nkjv@Proverbs:1:18 @ But they lie in wait for their own blood, They lurk secretly for their own lives.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:19 @ So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:20 @ Wisdom calls aloud outside; She raises her voice in the open squares.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:21 @ She cries out in the chief concourses, At the openings of the gates in the city She speaks her words:

nkjv@Proverbs:1:22 @ "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:23 @ Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:24 @ Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded,

nkjv@Proverbs:1:25 @ Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke,

nkjv@Proverbs:1:26 @ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes,

nkjv@Proverbs:1:27 @ When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:28 @ "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:29 @ Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD,

nkjv@Proverbs:1:30 @ They would have none of my counsel And despised my every rebuke.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:31 @ Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies.

nkjv@Proverbs:1:32 @ For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them;

nkjv@Proverbs:1:33 @ But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil."

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