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Proverbs • Chapter 2
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If you take my words and hide my commandments with you.
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To incline your ear to wisdom and to apply your heart to understanding.
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For if you call for understanding, and raise your voice for insight.
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If you seek silver and search for hidden treasures.
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Then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and the knowledge of God you will find.
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For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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He will surely hide for the upright wisdom, a shield for those who walk in integrity.
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To preserve the paths of justice and to keep the way of my saints.
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice and uprightness, every good path.
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For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
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A plan will keep watch over you; understanding will guard you.
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To rescue you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things.
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Those who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness.
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They rejoice to do evil; they delight in overturning what is right.
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Which paths of theirs are crooked and devious in their circuits.
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To deliver you from a strange woman, from a foreign woman, whose words are smooth.
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The proud has forgotten the covenant of her God.
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For she has sunk to death, and her paths lead to the dead.
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All who enter it shall not return, and they shall not attain the paths of life.
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So that you may walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright will dwell in the land, and the blameless will remain in it.
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And the wicked will be cut off from the earth, and the treacherous will be uprooted from it.