nsb - Proverbs:2

nsb@Proverbs:2:1 @ My son, take my words to heart and treasure my commandments within you.

nsb@Proverbs:2:2 @ Pay close attention to wisdom, and let your heart reach for discernment.

nsb@Proverbs:2:3 @ Call out for insight. Lift up your voice for understanding.

nsb@Proverbs:2:4 @ Search for wisdom as if it were silver. Hunt for it as if it were hidden treasure!

nsb@Proverbs:2:5 @ If you do these things you will have respect for Jehovah and you will find the true knowledge of God!

nsb@Proverbs:2:6 @ Jehovah gives wisdom. From his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

nsb@Proverbs:2:7 @ He stores up insightful wisdom for the upright. He is a shield for those who walk in integrity.

nsb@Proverbs:2:8 @ He guards those on paths of justice. He watches over the way of his godly ones.

nsb@Proverbs:2:9 @ You will understand righteousness and justice. You will have equity and every good course in life.

nsb@Proverbs:2:10 @ Wisdom enters your heart. Knowledge gives you pleasure.

nsb@Proverbs:2:11 @ Discretion will protect you. Understanding will watch over you.

nsb@Proverbs:2:12 @ It will deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things.

nsb@Proverbs:2:13 @ Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness?

nsb@Proverbs:2:14 @ Who rejoice in doing evil? They delight in the perversity of the wicked.

nsb@Proverbs:2:15 @ The wicked are crooked. They are devious in their ways.

nsb@Proverbs:2:16 @ You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk.

nsb@Proverbs:2:17 @ She is unfaithful to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows to God.

nsb@Proverbs:2:18 @ If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the dead.

nsb@Proverbs:2:19 @ No one who visits her ever comes back. He cannot return to the road to life.

nsb@Proverbs:2:20 @ You must follow the example of good people and live a righteous life.

nsb@Proverbs:2:21 @ The upright will live in the land. The blameless people of integrity will remain.

nsb@Proverbs:2:22 @ The wicked will be cut off from the land. The unfaithful will be uprooted.