Proverbs
2
Wisdom,
knowledge, understanding
Key words: way and path
(2 kinds)
Proverbs 2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my
commandments with thee;
Proverbs 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
Proverbs 2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
Proverbs 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
Proverbs 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD,
and find the knowledge of God.
Proverbs 2:6 For the
LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and
understanding.
Proverbs 2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he
is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
Proverbs 2:8 He keepeth
the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of
his saints.
Proverbs 2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and
judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
Proverbs 2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine
heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
Proverbs 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of
the evil man, from the man
that speaketh froward
things;
Proverbs 2:13 Who leave the
paths of uprightness, to
walk in the ways of darkness;
Proverbs 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Proverbs 2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in
their paths:
Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the
stranger which flattereth with her words;
Proverbs 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth,
and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
Proverbs 2:18 For her house inclineth unto death,
and her paths unto the dead.
Proverbs 2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths
of life.
Proverbs 2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep
the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs 2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall
remain in it.
Proverbs 2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the
transgressors shall be rooted out of it.