Proverbs:3-5
rsv@Proverbs:3:1 @ My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
rsv@Proverbs:3:2 @ for length of days and years of life and abundant welfare will they give you.
rsv@Proverbs:3:3 @ Let not loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
rsv@Proverbs:3:4 @ So you will find favor and good repute in the sight of God and man.
rsv@Proverbs:3:5 @ Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight.
rsv@Proverbs:3:6 @ In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
rsv@Proverbs:3:7 @ Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil.
rsv@Proverbs:3:8 @ It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
rsv@Proverbs:3:9 @ Honor the LORD with your substance and with the first fruits of all your produce;
rsv@Proverbs:3:10 @ then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
rsv@Proverbs:3:11 @ My son, do not despise the LORD's discipline or be weary of his reproof,
rsv@Proverbs:3:12 @ for the LORD reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights.
rsv@Proverbs:3:13 @ Happy is the man who finds wisdom, and the man who gets understanding,
rsv@Proverbs:3:14 @ for the gain from it is better than gain from silver and its profit better than gold.
rsv@Proverbs:3:15 @ She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her.
rsv@Proverbs:3:16 @ Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
rsv@Proverbs:3:17 @ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
rsv@Proverbs:3:18 @ She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.
rsv@Proverbs:3:19 @ The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;
rsv@Proverbs:3:20 @ by his knowledge the deeps broke forth, and the clouds drop down the dew.
rsv@Proverbs:3:21 @ My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion; let them not escape from your sight,
rsv@Proverbs:3:22 @ and they will be life for your soul and adornment for your neck.
rsv@Proverbs:3:23 @ Then you will walk on your way securely and your foot will not stumble.
rsv@Proverbs:3:24 @ If you sit down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.
rsv@Proverbs:3:25 @ Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes;
rsv@Proverbs:3:26 @ for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
rsv@Proverbs:3:27 @ Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it.
rsv@Proverbs:3:28 @ Do not say to your neighbor, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it"--when you have it with you.
rsv@Proverbs:3:29 @ Do not plan evil against your neighbor who dwells trustingly beside you.
rsv@Proverbs:3:30 @ Do not contend with a man for no reason, when he has done you no harm.
rsv@Proverbs:3:31 @ Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways;
rsv@Proverbs:3:32 @ for the perverse man is an abomination to the LORD, but the upright are in his confidence.
rsv@Proverbs:3:33 @ The LORD's curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the abode of the righteous.
rsv@Proverbs:3:34 @ Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he shows favor.
rsv@Proverbs:3:35 @ The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.
rsv@Proverbs:4:1 @ Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight;
rsv@Proverbs:4:2 @ for I give you good precepts: do not forsake my teaching.
rsv@Proverbs:4:3 @ When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
rsv@Proverbs:4:4 @ he taught me, and said to me, "Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live;
rsv@Proverbs:4:5 @ do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Get wisdom; get insight.
rsv@Proverbs:4:6 @ Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.
rsv@Proverbs:4:7 @ The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
rsv@Proverbs:4:8 @ Prize her highly, and she will exalt you; she will honor you if you embrace her.
rsv@Proverbs:4:9 @ She will place on your head a fair garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown."
rsv@Proverbs:4:10 @ Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.
rsv@Proverbs:4:11 @ I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
rsv@Proverbs:4:12 @ When you walk, your step will not be hampered; and if you run, you will not stumble.
rsv@Proverbs:4:13 @ Keep hold of instruction, do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.
rsv@Proverbs:4:14 @ Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil men.
rsv@Proverbs:4:15 @ Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.
rsv@Proverbs:4:16 @ For they cannot sleep unless they have done wrong; they are robbed of sleep unless they have made some one stumble.
rsv@Proverbs:4:17 @ For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
rsv@Proverbs:4:18 @ But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
rsv@Proverbs:4:19 @ The way of the wicked is like deep darkness; they do not know over what they stumble.
rsv@Proverbs:4:20 @ My son, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
rsv@Proverbs:4:21 @ Let them not escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.
rsv@Proverbs:4:22 @ For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.
rsv@Proverbs:4:23 @ Keep your heart with all vigilance; for from it flow the springs of life.
rsv@Proverbs:4:24 @ Put away from you crooked speech, and put devious talk far from you.
rsv@Proverbs:4:25 @ Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.
rsv@Proverbs:4:26 @ Take heed to the path of your feet, then all your ways will be sure.
rsv@Proverbs:4:27 @ Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.
rsv@Proverbs:5:1 @ My son, be attentive to my wisdom, incline your ear to my understanding;
rsv@Proverbs:5:2 @ that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
rsv@Proverbs:5:3 @ For the lips of a loose woman drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil;
rsv@Proverbs:5:4 @ but in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
rsv@Proverbs:5:5 @ Her feet go down to death; her steps follow the path to Sheol;
rsv@Proverbs:5:6 @ she does not take heed to the path of life; her ways wander, and she does not know it.
rsv@Proverbs:5:7 @ And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.
rsv@Proverbs:5:8 @ Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house;
rsv@Proverbs:5:9 @ lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless;
rsv@Proverbs:5:10 @ lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of an alien;
rsv@Proverbs:5:11 @ and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed,
rsv@Proverbs:5:12 @ and you say, "How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
rsv@Proverbs:5:13 @ I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
rsv@Proverbs:5:14 @ I was at the point of utter ruin in the assembled congregation."
rsv@Proverbs:5:15 @ Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
rsv@Proverbs:5:16 @ Should your springs be scattered abroad, streams of water in the streets?
rsv@Proverbs:5:17 @ Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
rsv@Proverbs:5:18 @ Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
rsv@Proverbs:5:19 @ a lovely hind, a graceful doe. Let her affection fill you at all times with delight, be infatuated always with her love.
rsv@Proverbs:5:20 @ Why should you be infatuated, my son, with a loose woman and embrace the bosom of an adventuress?
rsv@Proverbs:5:21 @ For a man's ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he watches all his paths.
rsv@Proverbs:5:22 @ The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is caught in the toils of his sin.
rsv@Proverbs:5:23 @ He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is lost.
rsv@Proverbs:6:1 @ My son, if you have become surety for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger;
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