Proverbs:1:8-19

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* My son , hear the instruction of thy father , and forsake not the law of thy mother : * For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head , and chains about thy neck . * My son , if sinners entice thee , consent thou not . * If they say , Come with us , let us lay wait for blood , let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause : * Let us swallow them up alive as the grave ; and whole , as those that go down into the pit : * We shall find all precious substance , we shall fill our houses with spoil : * Cast in thy lot among us ; let us all have one purse : * My son , walk not thou in the way with them ; refrain thy foot from their path : * For their feet run to evil , and make haste to shed blood . * Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird . * And they lay wait for their own blood ; they lurk privily for their own lives . * So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain ; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof .

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