1My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

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Proverbs 3:1, Proverbs 3:1, Proverbs 1:3, Proverbs 1:3, Proverbs 4:1

2So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

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Proverbs 23:12, Proverbs 23:12, Proverbs 18:1, Proverbs 18:1, Psalms 119:111

3Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

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James 1:5, James 1:5, Ephesians 1:17, Ephesians 1:18, Ephesians 1:17

4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

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Matthew 13:44, Matthew 13:44, Matthew 19:29, Proverbs 16:16, Matthew 19:29

5then you will understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

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Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 1:7, Jeremiah 24:7, Jeremiah 24:7, 2 Chronicles 1:10

6For the Lord gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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Ephesians 1:17, Ephesians 1:18, Ephesians 1:17, Ephesians 1:18, James 1:5

7He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

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James 3:15, James 3:17, James 3:15, James 3:17, Psalms 84:11

8that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his holy ones.

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Psalms 23:3, Psalms 23:3, 1 Samuel 2:9, 1 Samuel 2:9, John 10:28

9Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

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Jeremiah 6:16, Jeremiah 6:16, Matthew 7:13, Matthew 7:14, Psalms 143:8

10For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

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Jeremiah 15:16, Jeremiah 15:16, Job 23:12, Colossians 3:16, Job 23:12

11Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

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Proverbs 4:6, Proverbs 4:6, Ephesians 5:15, Psalms 25:21, Ephesians 5:15

12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

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1 Corinthians 15:33, 1 Corinthians 15:33, Proverbs 8:13, Proverbs 13:20, Proverbs 8:13

13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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John 3:19, John 3:20, John 3:19, John 3:20, Proverbs 4:19

14who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

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Proverbs 10:23, Proverbs 10:23, Romans 1:32, Romans 1:32, Jeremiah 11:15

15who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

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Psalms 125:5, Psalms 125:5, Proverbs 21:8, Proverbs 21:8, Deuteronomy 32:5

16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

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Ecclesiastes 7:26, Ecclesiastes 7:26, Proverbs 7:5, Proverbs 7:23, Proverbs 6:24

17who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

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Ezekiel 16:59, Ezekiel 16:60, Jeremiah 3:4, Ezekiel 16:8, Ezekiel 16:59

18for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

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Proverbs 9:18, Proverbs 9:18, Ephesians 5:5, Galatians 5:19, Galatians 5:21

19None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

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Ecclesiastes 7:26, Ecclesiastes 7:26, Psalms 81:12, Psalms 81:12, Matthew 19:24

20that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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Hebrews 6:12, Hebrews 6:12, 3 John 1:11, Psalms 119:115, Jeremiah 6:16

21For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

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Psalms 37:9, Psalms 37:29, Psalms 37:9, Psalms 37:29, Psalms 84:11

22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.

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Psalms 52:5, Psalms 52:5, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, Isaiah 3:10