Proverbs:4

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* Hear , ye children , the instruction of a father , and attend to know intelligence ; * for I give you good doctrine : forsake ye not my law . * For I was a son unto my father , tender and an only one in the sight of my mother . * And he taught me , and said unto me , Let thy heart retain my words ; keep my commandments and live . * Get wisdom , get intelligence : forget [it ] not ; neither decline from the words of my mouth . * Forsake her not , and she shall keep thee ; love her , and she shall preserve thee . * The beginning of wisdom [is ], Get wisdom ; and with all thy getting get intelligence . * Exalt her , and she shall promote thee ; she shall bring thee to honour when thou dost embrace her . * She shall give to thy head a garland of grace ; a crown of glory will she bestow upon thee . * Hear , my son , and receive my sayings , and the years of thy life shall be multiplied . * I will teach thee in the way of wisdom , I will lead thee in paths of uprightness . * When thou goest , thy steps shall not be straitened ; and when thou runnest , thou shalt not stumble . * Take fast hold of instruction , let [her ] not go : keep her , for she is thy life . * Enter not into the path of the wicked , and go not in the way of evil [men ]: * avoid it , pass not by it ; turn from it , and pass away . * For they sleep not except they have done mischief , and their sleep is taken away unless they have caused [some ] to fall . * For they eat the bread of wickedness , and drink the wine of violence . * But the path of the righteous is as the shining light , going on and brightening until the day be fully come . * The way of the wicked is as darkness : they know not at what they stumble . * My son , attend to my words ; incline thine ear unto my sayings . * Let them not depart from thine eyes ; keep them in the midst of thy heart . * For they are life unto those that find them , and health to all their flesh . * Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded ; for out of it are the issues of life . * Put away from thee perverseness of mouth , and corrupt lips put far from thee . * Let thine eyes look right on , and let thine eyelids look straight before thee . * Ponder the path of thy feet , and let all thy ways be well-ordered . * Turn not to the right hand nor to the left ; remove thy foot from evil .

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