nkjv - Proverbs:22-23

nkjv@Proverbs:22:1 @ A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, Loving favor rather than silver and gold.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:2 @ The rich and the poor have this in common, The LORD is the maker of them all.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:3 @ A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, But the simple pass on and are punished.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:4 @ By humility and the fear of the LORD Are riches and honor and life.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:5 @ Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; He who guards his soul will be far from them.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:6 @ Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:7 @ The rich rules over the poor, And the borrower is servant to the lender.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:8 @ He who sows iniquity will reap sorrow, And the rod of his anger will fail.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:9 @ He who has a generous eye will be blessed, For he gives of his bread to the poor.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:10 @ Cast out the scoffer, and contention will leave; Yes, strife and reproach will cease.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:11 @ He who loves purity of heart And has grace on his lips, The king will be his friend.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:12 @ The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, But He overthrows the words of the faithless.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:13 @ The lazy man says, "There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!"

nkjv@Proverbs:22:14 @ The mouth of an immoral woman is a deep pit; He who is abhorred by the LORD will fall there.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:15 @ Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:16 @ He who oppresses the poor to increase his riches, And he who gives to the rich, will surely come to poverty.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:17 @ Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, And apply your heart to my knowledge;

nkjv@Proverbs:22:18 @ For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; Let them all be fixed upon your lips,

nkjv@Proverbs:22:19 @ So that your trust may be in the LORD; I have instructed you today, even you.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:20 @ Have I not written to you excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,

nkjv@Proverbs:22:21 @ That I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth, That you may answer words of truth To those who send to you?

nkjv@Proverbs:22:22 @ Do not rob the poor because he is poor, Nor oppress the afflicted at the gate;

nkjv@Proverbs:22:23 @ For the LORD will plead their cause, And plunder the soul of those who plunder them.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:24 @ Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go,

nkjv@Proverbs:22:25 @ Lest you learn his ways And set a snare for your soul.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:26 @ Do not be one of those who shakes hands in a pledge, One of those who is surety for debts;

nkjv@Proverbs:22:27 @ If you have nothing with which to pay, Why should he take away your bed from under you?

nkjv@Proverbs:22:28 @ Do not remove the ancient landmark Which your fathers have set.

nkjv@Proverbs:22:29 @ Do you see a man who excels in his work? He will stand before kings; He will not stand before unknown men.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:1 @ When you sit down to eat with a ruler, Consider carefully what is before you;

nkjv@Proverbs:23:2 @ And put a knife to your throat If you are a man given to appetite.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:3 @ Do not desire his delicacies, For they are deceptive food.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:4 @ Do not overwork to be rich; Because of your own understanding, cease!

nkjv@Proverbs:23:5 @ Will you set your eyes on that which is not? For riches certainly make themselves wings; They fly away like an eagle toward heaven.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:6 @ Do not eat the bread of a miser, Nor desire his delicacies;

nkjv@Proverbs:23:7 @ For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. "Eat and drink!" he says to you, But his heart is not with you.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:8 @ The morsel you have eaten, you will vomit up, And waste your pleasant words.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:9 @ Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:10 @ Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter the fields of the fatherless;

nkjv@Proverbs:23:11 @ For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead their cause against you.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:12 @ Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to words of knowledge.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:13 @ Do not withhold correction from a child, For if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:14 @ You shall beat him with a rod, And deliver his soul from hell.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:15 @ My son, if your heart is wise, My heart will rejoice--indeed, I myself;

nkjv@Proverbs:23:16 @ Yes, my inmost being will rejoice When your lips speak right things.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:17 @ Do not let your heart envy sinners, But be zealous for the fear of the LORD all the day;

nkjv@Proverbs:23:18 @ For surely there is a hereafter, And your hope will not be cut off.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:19 @ Hear, my son, and be wise; And guide your heart in the way.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:20 @ Do not mix with winebibbers, Or with gluttonous eaters of meat;

nkjv@Proverbs:23:21 @ For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:22 @ Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:23 @ Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:24 @ The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who begets a wise child will delight in him.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:25 @ Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her who bore you rejoice.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:26 @ My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes observe my ways.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:27 @ For a harlot is a deep pit, And a seductress is a narrow well.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:28 @ She also lies in wait as for a victim, And increases the unfaithful among men.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:29 @ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

nkjv@Proverbs:23:30 @ Those who linger long at the wine, Those who go in search of mixed wine.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:31 @ Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around smoothly;

nkjv@Proverbs:23:32 @ At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:33 @ Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things.

nkjv@Proverbs:23:34 @ Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:

nkjv@Proverbs:23:35 @ "They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?

nkjv@Proverbs:24:1 @ Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them;