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Proverbs 1

33 verses · King James Version

  1. 1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;Compare translations of Proverbs 1:1
  2. 2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;Compare translations of Proverbs 1:2
  3. 3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;Compare translations of Proverbs 1:3
  4. 4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:4
  5. 5A wise will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:5
  6. 6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:6
  7. 7The fear of the LORD the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:7
  8. 8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:8
  9. 9For they an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:9
  10. 10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:10
  11. 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:11
  12. 12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:12
  13. 13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:13
  14. 14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:14
  15. 15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:15
  16. 16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:16
  17. 17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:17
  18. 18And they lay wait for their blood; they lurk privily for their lives.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:18
  19. 19So the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; taketh away the life of the owners thereof.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:19
  20. 20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:20
  21. 21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words,Compare translations of Proverbs 1:21
  22. 22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?Compare translations of Proverbs 1:22
  23. 23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:23
  24. 24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;Compare translations of Proverbs 1:24
  25. 25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:25
  26. 26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;Compare translations of Proverbs 1:26
  27. 27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:27
  28. 28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:28
  29. 29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:Compare translations of Proverbs 1:29
  30. 30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:30
  31. 31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:31
  32. 32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:32
  33. 33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.Compare translations of Proverbs 1:33