rsv Proverbs:4:1-27
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.
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