Proverbs 2:1-22 HCSB My
son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2 listening closely to wisdom and directing
your heart to understanding; 3 furthermore,
if you call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, 4 if you seek it like silver and search for it
like hidden treasure, 5 then you
will understand the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD gives wisdom; from His
mouth come knowledge and understanding. 7
He stores up success for the upright; He is a shield for those
who live with integrity 8 so that He
may guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His loyal followers. 9 Then you will understand
righteousness, justice, and integrity--every good path. 10 For wisdom will enter your mind, and
knowledge will delight your heart. 11 Discretion
will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, 12 rescuing you from the way of evil--from the
one who says perverse things, 13 from
those who abandon the right paths to walk in ways of darkness, 14 from those who enjoy doing evil and
celebrate perversity, 15 whose paths
are crooked, and whose ways are devious.
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It will rescue you from a forbidden woman, from a stranger with her
flattering talk, 17 who abandons the
companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God; 18 for her house sinks down to death and her
ways to the land of the departed spirits.
19 None return who go to her; none reach
the paths of life. 20 So
follow the way of good people, and keep to the paths of the righteous. 21 For the upright will inhabit the land,
and those of integrity will remain in it;
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but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous
uprooted from it.
Devotionals: Proverbs
2:1-4 Christians and Samurais
Proverbs 2:6-9 Josef
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