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)
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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 3
Tanakh 35 verses
- 1 My son, forget not my teaching; But let thy keep my commandments;
- 2 For length of days, and years of life, And , will they add to thee.
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Let not kindness and forsake thee; Bind them about thy neck, write them upon the table of thy ;
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So shalt thou find and good favour In the sight of and man.
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Trust in with all thy , And lean not upon thine own understanding.
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In all thy ways acknowledge Him, And He will direct thy paths.
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Proverbs 16:3 Psalm 32:8 Philippians 4:6 Jeremiah 10:23 James 1:5 Proverbs 16:9 Psalm 25:8-9 Isaiah 30:21 Proverbs 23:17 Isaiah 48:17 1 Chronicles 28:9 Colossians 3:23 1 Corinthians 10:31 Nehemiah 1:11 Ezra 8:22-23 Colossians 3:17 Ezra 7:27 1 Samuel 30:8 Isaiah 45:13 Nehemiah 2:4 1 Samuel 4:11-12 2 Corinthians 8:16 - 7 Be not wise in thine own eyes; Fear , and depart from evil;
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It shall be health to thy navel, And marrow to thy bones.
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Honour with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase;
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Exodus 23:19 Philippians 4:17-18 Exodus 22:29 1 Corinthians 16:2 Exodus 34:26 Deuteronomy 26:2-15 2 Corinthians 8:2-3 Numbers 31:50-54 Genesis 28:22 2 Corinthians 8:8-9 Malachi 3:8-10 Haggai 1:4-9 Luke 14:13-14 Exodus 35:20-29 1 John 3:17-18 Proverbs 14:31 Mark 14:7-8 Numbers 7:2-89 Mark 14:10-21 Genesis 14:18-21 - 10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, And thy vats shall overflow with new wine.
- 11 My son, despise not the chastening of , Neither spurn thou His correction;
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For whom loveth He correcteth, Even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, And the man that obtaineth understanding.
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- 14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, And the gain thereof than fine gold.
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She is more precious than rubies; And all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
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- 16 Length of days is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and .
- 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are .
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She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, And happy is every one that holdest her fast.
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The by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the .
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- 20 By His knowledge the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew.
- 21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes; Keep sound wisdom and discretion;
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So shall they be life unto thy , And to thy neck.
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Then shalt thou walk in thy way securely, And thou shalt not dash thy foot.
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When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid; Yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.
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- 25 Be not afraid of sudden terror, Neither of the destruction of the wicked, when it cometh;
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For will be thy confidence, And will keep thy foot from being caught.
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Withhold not good from him to whom it is due, When it is in the power of thy hand to do it.
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- 28 Say not unto thy neighbour: ‘Go, and come again, And to-morrow I will give’; when thou hast it by thee.
- 29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, Seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
- 30 Strive not with a man without cause, If he have done thee no harm.
- 31 Envy thou not the man of violence, And choose none of his ways.
- 32 For the perverse is an abomination to ; But His counsel is with the upright.
- 33 The of is in the house of the wicked; But He blesseth the habitation of the righteous.
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If it concerneth the scorners, He scorneth them, But unto the humble He giveth .
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The wise shall inherit ; But as for the fools, they carry away shame.
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