These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Proverbs 1
Tanakh 33 verses
- 1 The proverbs of the son of , of ;
- 2 To wisdom and instruction; To comprehend the words of understanding;
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To receive the discipline of wisdom, Justice, and right, and equity;
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- 4 To give prudence to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion;
- 5 That the wise man may , and increase in learning, And the man of understanding may attain unto wise counsels;
- 6 To understand a proverb, and a figure; The words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
- 7 The of is the beginning of knowledge; But the foolish despise wisdom and discipline.
- 8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
- 9 For they shall be a chaplet of unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
- 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.
- 11 If they say: ‘Come with us, Let us lie in wait for , Let us lurk for the innocent without cause;
- 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
- 13 We shall find all precious substance, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
- 14 Cast in thy lot among us; Let us all have one purse’—
- 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them, Restrain thy foot from their path;
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For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed .
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For in vain the net is spread In the eyes of any bird;
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And these lie in wait for their own , They lurk for their own lives.
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- 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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Wisdom crieth aloud in the streets, She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
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She calleth at the head of the noisy streets, At the entrances of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:
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How long, ye thoughtless, will ye thoughtlessness? And how long will scorners delight them in scorning, And fools hate knowledge?
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Proverbs 5:12 Proverbs 1:29 Psalm 1:1 Proverbs 9:16-18 2 Peter 3:3 Proverbs 19:29 Matthew 17:17 Exodus 10:3 Proverbs 1:4 Psalm 94:8 Job 34:7 Proverbs 1:7 Luke 19:42 Proverbs 15:12 Exodus 16:28 Proverbs 6:9 Matthew 23:37 Proverbs 3:34 Revelation 22:17 Proverbs 14:6 Numbers 14:27 John 3:20 Proverbs 8:5 Proverbs 9:4-6 Matthew 11:29-30 Matthew 9:13 Proverbs 21:11 Proverbs 7:7 -
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Turn you at my reproof; Behold, I will pour out my unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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Isaiah 32:15 Joel 2:28 Zechariah 12:10 Ezekiel 18:27-30 Ezekiel 33:11 Revelation 3:16-19 Isaiah 55:1-3 Luke 11:13 Isaiah 55:6-7 Acts 26:20 Acts 2:36-38 Proverbs 12:1 Psalm 145:1 Proverbs 29:1 Proverbs 1:25 Proverbs 10:17 Isaiah 45:8 Proverbs 6:23 Proverbs 1:30 Acts 3:19 Hosea 14:1 Jeremiah 3:14 John 7:36-37 - 24 Because I have called, and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man attended,
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But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof;
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I also, in your calamity, will laugh, I will mock when your dread cometh;
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- 27 When your dread cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When trouble and distress come upon you.
- 28 Then will they call me, but I will not answer, They will seek me earnestly, but they shall not find me.
- 29 For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the of ;
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They would none of my counsel, They despised all my reproof.
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Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.
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- 32 For the waywardness of the thoughtless shall slay them, And the confidence of fools shall destroy them.
- 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, And shall be quiet without of evil.’