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Proverbs Chapter 8

Noyes
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PROVERBS

Proverbs 8

1Doth not wisdom cry aloud, And understanding put forth her voice?
Proverbs 1:20, Proverbs 1:21, Proverbs 1:20, Proverbs 1:21, John 7:37
2Upon the top of the high places, By the wayside, In the cross-ways, She taketh her station.
Proverbs 9:3, Proverbs 9:14, Proverbs 9:3, Proverbs 9:14
3By the side of the gates, In the entrance of the city, In the approaches to the doors, she crieth aloud.
Job 29:7, Job 29:7, Luke 14:21, Luke 14:23, Matthew 22:9
4"To you, O men! do I call, And my voice is to the sons of men!
Psalms 50:1, Revelation 22:17, John 3:16, Psalms 49:1, Psalms 49:3
5O ye simple ones! learn wisdom, And ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart!
Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 1:22, Acts 26:18, Revelation 3:17, Revelation 3:18
6Hear, for I speak excellent things, And my lips utter that which is right.
Colossians 1:26, Colossians 1:26, Proverbs 23:16, Matthew 7:28, Matthew 7:29
7For my mouth speaketh truth, And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Psalms 37:30, Psalms 37:30, John 8:14, John 8:14, John 17:17
8All the words of my mouth are in uprightness; There is nothing crooked or deceitful in them;
John 7:46, John 7:46, Psalms 12:6, Proverbs 8:13, Psalms 12:6
9They are all plain to the man of understanding, And right to those who find knowledge.
Proverbs 14:6, Proverbs 14:6, James 1:5, James 1:5, Proverbs 15:24
10Receive my instruction, and not silver. And knowledge rather than choice gold!
Proverbs 2:4, Proverbs 2:5, Proverbs 2:4, Proverbs 2:5, Psalms 119:127
11For wisdom is better than pearls, And no precious things are to be compared with her.
Psalms 19:10, Psalms 119:127, Psalms 19:10, Psalms 119:127, Proverbs 4:5
12"I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And find out the knowledge of sagacious counsels.
Isaiah 28:26, Isaiah 28:26, Exodus 35:30, Exodus 36:4, Exodus 35:30
13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil; Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, And the deceitful mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 16:6, Proverbs 16:6, Psalms 97:10, Psalms 97:10, 1 Samuel 2:3
14Counsel is mine, and sound reason; I am understanding; I have strength.
Ecclesiastes 7:19, Ecclesiastes 7:19, Isaiah 9:6, Romans 11:33, Romans 11:34
15By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.
Daniel 2:21, Romans 13:1, Daniel 2:21, Romans 13:1, Matthew 28:18
16By me princes rule, And nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17I love them that love me, And they who seek me early shall find me.
John 14:23, John 14:23, John 14:21, John 14:21, Psalms 91:14
18Riches and honor are with me; Yea, durable riches and prosperity.
Proverbs 3:16, Proverbs 3:16, Matthew 6:33, Matthew 6:33, Luke 16:11
19My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold. And my revenue than choice silver.
Proverbs 3:14, Proverbs 10:20, Proverbs 3:14, Proverbs 10:20, Proverbs 8:10
20I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of equity.
Deuteronomy 5:32, Deuteronomy 5:32, Psalms 32:8, John 10:27, John 10:28
21I cause those who love me to possess substance; Yea, I fill their treasuries.
1 Peter 1:4, 1 Peter 1:4, Proverbs 24:4, Matthew 25:46, Proverbs 24:4
22"The LORD created me, the firstling of his course, Before his works, of old;
Colossians 1:17, Colossians 1:17, John 1:1, John 1:2, John 1:1
23I was anointed from everlasting, From the beginning, even before the earth was made.
John 17:24, John 17:24, Micah 5:2, Psalms 2:6, Micah 5:2
24When as yet there were no deeps, I was brought forth. When there were no springs, abounding with water.
Proverbs 3:20, Proverbs 3:20, Genesis 1:2, Genesis 1:2, 1 John 4:9
25Before the mountains were settled, Yea, before the hills, I was brought forth;
Psalms 90:2, Psalms 90:2, Job 38:4, Job 38:11, Psalms 102:25
26Ere yet he had made the land and the wastes, And the first of the clods of the earth.
Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:31, Genesis 1:1, Genesis 1:31
27When he framed the heavens, I was there; When he drew a circle upon the face of the deep;
Job 26:10, Job 26:10, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 40:22, Proverbs 3:19
28When he made firm the sky above, And the fountains of the deep rushed forth;
29When he gave to the sea its bounds, that the waters should not pass their border; When he marked out the foundations of the earth,—
Psalms 104:9, Psalms 104:9, Jeremiah 5:22, Jeremiah 5:22, Genesis 1:9
30Then was I by him as a master-builder; I was his delight day by day, Exulting before him at all times;
John 1:1, John 1:3, John 1:1, John 1:3, Isaiah 42:1
31Exulting in the habitable part of his earth, And my delight was with the sons of men.
Psalms 16:3, Psalms 16:3, John 13:1, John 13:1, Psalms 40:6
32"Now, therefore, ye children, hearken to me! For happy are they who keep my ways!
Psalms 119:1, Psalms 119:2, Luke 11:28, Psalms 119:1, Psalms 119:2
33Hear instruction, and be wise! Yea, reject it not!
Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 5:1, Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 5:1
34Happy the man who hearkeneth to me, Who watcheth day by day at my gates, Who waiteth at the posts of my doors;
Luke 11:28, Luke 11:28, Matthew 7:24, Matthew 7:24, Proverbs 3:13
35For he that findeth me findeth life, And obtaineth favor from the LORD;
John 3:36, John 3:36, Proverbs 12:2, 1 John 5:11, 1 John 5:12
36But he who misseth me doeth violence to himself; All they who hate me love death."
Proverbs 15:32, Proverbs 15:32, Proverbs 1:31, Proverbs 1:31, 1 Corinthians 16:22

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