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Proverbs 5

  • 5:1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
  • 5:2 That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
  • 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
  • 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
  • 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
  • 5:6 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
  • 5:7 Hear me now therefore, O you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
  • 5:8 Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:
  • 5:9 Lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel:
  • 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labors be in the house of a stranger;
  • 5:11 And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
  • 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
  • 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ear to them that instructed me!
  • 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the middle of the congregation and assembly.
  • 5:15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
  • 5:16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
  • 5:17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers’ with you.
  • 5:18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
  • 5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you ravished always with her love.
  • 5:20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
  • 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his goings.
  • 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
  • 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

Proverbs 4

  • 4:1 Hear, you children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
  • 4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake you not my law.
  • 4:3 For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
  • 4:4 He taught me also, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
  • 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
  • 4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve you: love her, and she shall keep you.
  • 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting get understanding.
  • 4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote you: she shall bring you to honor, when you do embrace her.
  • 4:9 She shall give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to you.
  • 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life shall be many.
  • 4:11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.
  • 4:12 When you go, your steps shall not be straitened; and when you run, you shall not stumble.
  • 4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is your life.
  • 4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
  • 4:15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
  • 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
  • 4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
  • 4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.
  • 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
  • 4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.
  • 4:21 Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the middle of your heart.
  • 4:22 For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
  • 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
  • 4:24 Put away from you a fraudulent mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.
  • 4:25 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.
  • 4:26 Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.
  • 4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove your foot from evil.

Proverbs 3

  • 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:
  • 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you.
  • 3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write them on the table of your heart:
  • 3:4 So shall you find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
  • 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not to your own understanding.
  • 3:6 In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.
  • 3:7 Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
  • 3:8 It shall be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones.
  • 3:9 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your increase:
  • 3:10 So shall your barns be filled with plenty, and your presses shall burst out with new wine.
  • 3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction:
  • 3:12 For whom the LORD loves he corrects; even as a father the son in whom he delights.
  • 3:13 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding.
  • 3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
  • 3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared to her.
  • 3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor.
  • 3:17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
  • 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and happy is every one that retains her.
  • 3:19 The LORD by wisdom has founded the earth; by understanding has he established the heavens.
  • 3:20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
  • 3:21 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
  • 3:22 So shall they be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.
  • 3:23 Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.
  • 3:24 When you lie down, you shall not be afraid: yes, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.
  • 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it comes.
  • 3:26 For the LORD shall be your confidence, and shall keep your foot from being taken.
  • 3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.
  • 3:28 Say not to your neighbor, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when you have it by you.
  • 3:29 Devise not evil against your neighbor, seeing he dwells securely by you.
  • 3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done you no harm.
  • 3:31 Envy you not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
  • 3:32 For the fraudulent is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
  • 3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesses the habitation of the just.
  • 3:34 Surely he scorns the scorners: but he gives grace to the lowly.
  • 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

Proverbs 2

  • 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
  • 2:2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
  • 2:3 Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;
  • 2:4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;
  • 2:5 Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
  • 2:6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
  • 2:7 He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
  • 2:8 He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves the way of his saints.
  • 2:9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yes, every good path.
  • 2:10 When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;
  • 2:11 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:
  • 2:12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things;
  • 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
  • 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
  • 2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they fraudulent in their paths:
  • 2:16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;
  • 2:17 Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.
  • 2:18 For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead.
  • 2:19 None that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
  • 2:20 That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
  • 2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
  • 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 1

  • 1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
  • 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
  • 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
  • 1:4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
  • 1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
  • 1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
  • 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  • 1:8 My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
  • 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.
  • 1:10 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
  • 1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:
  • 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
  • 1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
  • 1:14 Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
  • 1:15 My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
  • 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
  • 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
  • 1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.
  • 1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.
  • 1:20 Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
  • 1:21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,
  • 1:22 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.
  • 1:24 Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
  • 1:25 But you have set at nothing all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
  • 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
  • 1:27 When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes on you.
  • 1:28 Then shall they call on me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
  • 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
  • 1:30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
  • 1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
  • 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
  • 1:33 But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Psalm 150

  • 150:1 Praise you the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
  • 150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
  • 150:3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
  • 150:4 Praise him with the tambourine and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
  • 150:5 Praise him on the loud cymbals: praise him on the high sounding cymbals.
  • 150:6 Let every thing that has breath praise the LORD. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 149

  • 149:1 Praise you the LORD. Sing to the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
  • 149:2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
  • 149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with the tambourine and harp.
  • 149:4 For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
  • 149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud on their beds.
  • 149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
  • 149:7 To execute vengeance on the heathen, and punishments on the people;
  • 149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
  • 149:9 To execute on them the judgment written: this honor have all his saints. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 148

  • 148:1 Praise you the LORD. Praise you the LORD from the heavens: praise him in the heights.
  • 148:2 Praise you him, all his angels: praise you him, all his hosts.
  • 148:3 Praise you him, sun and moon: praise him, all you stars of light.
  • 148:4 Praise him, you heavens of heavens, and you waters that be above the heavens.
  • 148:5 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for he commanded, and they were created.
  • 148:6 He has also established them for ever and ever: he has made a decree which shall not pass.
  • 148:7 Praise the LORD from the earth, you dragons, and all deeps:
  • 148:8 Fire, and hail; snow, and vapors; stormy wind fulfilling his word:
  • 148:9 Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
  • 148:10 Beasts, and all cattle; creeping things, and flying fowl:
  • 148:11 Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth:
  • 148:12 Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
  • 148:13 Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
  • 148:14 He also exalts the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 147

  • 147:1 Praise you the LORD: for it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
  • 147:2 The LORD does build up Jerusalem: he gathers together the outcasts of Israel.
  • 147:3 He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds.
  • 147:4 He tells the number of the stars; he calls them all by their names.
  • 147:5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.
  • 147:6 The LORD lifts up the meek: he casts the wicked down to the ground.
  • 147:7 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise on the harp to our God:
  • 147:8 Who covers the heaven with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the mountains.
  • 147:9 He gives to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
  • 147:10 He delights not in the strength of the horse: he takes not pleasure in the legs of a man.
  • 147:11 The LORD takes pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
  • 147:12 Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion.
  • 147:13 For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.
  • 147:14 He makes peace in your borders, and fills you with the finest of the wheat.
  • 147:15 He sends forth his commandment on earth: his word runs very swiftly.
  • 147:16 He gives snow like wool: he scatters the hoarfrost like ashes.
  • 147:17 He casts forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?
  • 147:18 He sends out his word, and melts them: he causes his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
  • 147:19 He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel.
  • 147:20 He has not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise you the LORD.

Psalm 146

  • 146:1 Praise you the LORD. Praise the LORD, O my soul.
  • 146:2 While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises to my God while I have any being.
  • 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
  • 146:4 His breath goes forth, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
  • 146:5 Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
  • 146:6 Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keeps truth for ever:
  • 146:7 Which executes judgment for the oppressed: which gives food to the hungry. The LORD looses the prisoners:
  • 146:8 The LORD opens the eyes of the blind: the LORD raises them that are bowed down: the LORD loves the righteous:
  • 146:9 The LORD preserves the strangers; he relieves the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turns upside down.
  • 146:10 The LORD shall reign for ever, even your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise you the LORD.