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Proverbs Chapter 1

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PROVERBS

Proverbs 1

1The Parables of Salomon the sonne of Dauid King of Israel,
Proverbs 10:1, Proverbs 10:1, 1 Chronicles 22:9, 1 Chronicles 22:9, 1 Chronicles 28:5
2To knowe wisdome, and instruction, to vnderstand ye wordes of knowledge,
Proverbs 7:4, Proverbs 7:4, Deuteronomy 4:5, Deuteronomy 4:6, Deuteronomy 4:5
3To receiue instruction to do wisely, by iustice and iudgement and equitie,
Proverbs 2:1, Proverbs 2:9, Proverbs 2:1, Proverbs 2:9, Job 22:22
4To giue vnto the simple, sharpenesse of wit, and to the childe knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 8:5, Proverbs 8:5, Psalms 119:9, Proverbs 8:17, Psalms 119:9
5A wise man shall heare and increase in learning, and a man of vnderstanding shall attayne vnto wise counsels,
Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 9:9, Proverbs 9:9, 1 Corinthians 10:15
6To vnderstand a parable, and the interpretation, the wordes of ye wise, and their darke sayings.
Psalms 78:2, Psalms 78:2, Mark 4:11, Mark 4:11, Hebrews 5:14
7The feare of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fooles despise wisedome and instruction.
Job 28:28, Job 28:28, Psalms 111:10, Psalms 112:1, Psalms 111:10
8My sonne, heare thy fathers instruction, and forsake not thy mothers teaching.
Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 30:17, Proverbs 30:17, Proverbs 5:1
9For they shalbe a comely ornament vnto thine head, and as chaines for thy necke.
Daniel 5:29, Proverbs 4:9, Daniel 5:29, Proverbs 4:9, Genesis 41:42
10My sonne, if sinners doe intise thee, consent thou not.
Ephesians 5:11, Ephesians 5:11, Proverbs 16:29, Proverbs 16:29, Psalms 1:1
11If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:
Proverbs 1:18, Jeremiah 5:26, Proverbs 1:18, Jeremiah 5:26, Proverbs 12:6
12We wil swallow them vp aliue like a graue euen whole, as those that goe downe into the pit:
Psalms 124:3, Psalms 28:1, Psalms 124:3, Psalms 28:1, Lamentations 2:16
13We shall finde all precious riches, and fill our houses with spoyle:
1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10, Luke 12:15
14Cast in thy lot among vs: we will all haue one purse:
15My sonne, walke not thou in the way with them: refraine thy foote from their path.
Psalms 119:101, Psalms 119:101, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 1:1, Proverbs 4:27
16For their feete runne to euill, and make haste to shed blood.
Isaiah 59:7, Isaiah 59:7, Proverbs 6:18, Proverbs 6:18, Proverbs 4:16
17Certainely as without cause the net is spred before the eyes of all that hath wing:
Proverbs 7:23, Proverbs 7:23, Jeremiah 8:7, Job 35:11, Jeremiah 8:7
18So they lay waite for blood and lie priuily for their liues.
Psalms 9:16, Esther 7:10, Psalms 9:16, Esther 7:10, Matthew 27:4
19Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs 15:27, Proverbs 15:27, 2 Peter 2:3, 2 Peter 2:3, Habakkuk 2:9
20Wisdome cryeth without: she vttereth her voyce in the streetes.
Proverbs 9:3, Proverbs 9:3, Colossians 2:3, Colossians 2:3, Luke 11:49
21She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,
Acts 5:20, Acts 5:20, Matthew 10:27, Proverbs 9:3, Matthew 13:2
22O ye foolish, howe long will ye loue foolishnes? and the scornefull take their pleasure in scorning, and the fooles hate knowledge?
Proverbs 1:29, Proverbs 5:12, Proverbs 1:29, Proverbs 5:12, Psalms 1:1
23(Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)
Ezekiel 33:11, Ezekiel 33:11, Acts 3:19, Acts 3:19, Ezekiel 18:27
24Because I haue called, and ye refused: I haue stretched out mine hand, and none woulde regarde.
Isaiah 65:12, Romans 10:21, Isaiah 65:12, Romans 10:21, Jeremiah 7:13
25But ye haue despised all my counsell, and would none of my correction.
Psalms 81:11, Luke 7:30, Psalms 81:11, Luke 7:30, Proverbs 1:30
26I will also laugh at your destruction, and mocke, when your feare commeth.
Psalms 37:13, Psalms 2:4, Psalms 37:13, Psalms 2:4, Proverbs 10:24
27Whe your feare cometh like sudden desolation, and your destruction shall come like a whirle wind: whe affliction and anguish shall come vpon you,
Nahum 1:3, Proverbs 3:25, Proverbs 3:26, Romans 2:9, Nahum 1:3
28Then shall they call vpon me, but I will not answere: they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me,
Micah 3:4, Micah 3:4, James 4:3, James 4:3, Job 27:9
29Because they hated knowledge, and did not chuse the feare of the Lord.
Proverbs 1:22, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Proverbs 1:22, Job 21:14
30They would none of my counsell, but despised all my correction.
Psalms 81:11, Proverbs 1:25, Psalms 81:11, Proverbs 1:25, Luke 14:18
31Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.
Proverbs 14:14, Proverbs 14:14, Proverbs 22:8, Job 4:8, Jeremiah 6:19
32For ease slaieth the foolish, and the prosperitie of fooles destroyeth them.
Proverbs 8:36, Hebrews 12:25, Proverbs 8:36, Hebrews 12:25, John 3:36
33But he that obeyeth me, shall dwell safely, and be quiet from feare of euill.
Psalms 25:12, Psalms 25:13, Psalms 25:12, Psalms 25:13, Psalms 112:7

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