Proverbs 1

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1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;19 cross-references: Proverbs 10:1, 1 Chronicles 22:9, 1 Chronicles 28:5, Ecclesiastes 1:1, Proverbs 25:1
2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;12 cross-references: Proverbs 7:4, Deuteronomy 4:5–6, Proverbs 8:5, 2 Timothy 3:15–17, Proverbs 17:16
3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;8 cross-references: Proverbs 2:1–9, Job 22:22, 1 Kings 3:28, Proverbs 8:10–11
4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.25 cross-references: Proverbs 8:5, Psalms 119:9, Proverbs 8:17, Psalms 119:130, Proverbs 9:4–6
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:31 cross-references: Proverbs 12:1, Proverbs 9:9, 1 Corinthians 10:15, Job 34:16, Job 34:10
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.20 cross-references: Psalms 78:2, Mark 4:11, Hebrews 5:14, Psalms 49:4, Mark 4:34
7The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.55 cross-references: Job 28:28, Psalms 111:10 – Psalms 112:1, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Proverbs 9:10, Proverbs 15:33
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:34 cross-references: Proverbs 6:20, Proverbs 30:17, Proverbs 5:1–2, Proverbs 2:1, Leviticus 19:3
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.22 cross-references: Daniel 5:29, Proverbs 4:9, Genesis 41:42, Proverbs 3:22, Proverbs 6:20–21
10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.31 cross-references: Ephesians 5:11, Proverbs 16:29, Psalms 1:1, Proverbs 13:20, Romans 16:18
11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:49 cross-references: Proverbs 1:18, Jeremiah 5:26, Proverbs 12:6, Jeremiah 18:18–20, Proverbs 1:16
12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:27 cross-references: Psalms 124:3, Psalms 28:1, Lamentations 2:16, Romans 3:13, Numbers 16:30–33
13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:11 cross-references: 1 Timothy 6:9–10, Luke 12:15, Job 24:2–3, Revelation 18:9–16, Proverbs 1:19
14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:23 cross-references: Psalms 119:101, Psalms 1:1, Proverbs 4:27, 2 Corinthians 6:17, Proverbs 4:14–15
16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.28 cross-references: Isaiah 59:7, Proverbs 6:18, Proverbs 4:16, Romans 3:5
17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.12 cross-references: Proverbs 7:23, Jeremiah 8:7, Job 35:11, Isaiah 1:3
18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.21 cross-references: Psalms 9:16, Esther 7:10, Matthew 27:4–5, Proverbs 5:22–23, Proverbs 28:17
19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.26 cross-references: Proverbs 15:27, 2 Peter 2:3, Habakkuk 2:9, Proverbs 23:3–4, Micah 3:10–12
20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:29 cross-references: Proverbs 9:3, Colossians 2:3, Luke 11:49, 1 Corinthians 1:24, Proverbs 8:1–5
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,10 cross-references: Acts 5:20, Matthew 10:27, Proverbs 9:3, Matthew 13:2, John 18:20
22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?79 cross-references: Proverbs 1:29, Proverbs 5:12, Psalms 1:1, John 3:20, Matthew 11:29–30
23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.43 cross-references: Ezekiel 33:11, Acts 3:19, Ezekiel 18:27–30, Joel 2:28, Acts 2:36–38
24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;50 cross-references: Isaiah 65:12, Romans 10:21, Jeremiah 7:13, Isaiah 66:4, Hebrews 12:25–26
25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:22 cross-references: Psalms 81:11, Luke 7:30, Proverbs 1:30, Proverbs 12:1, 2 Chronicles 36:16
26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;14 cross-references: Psalms 37:13, Psalms 2:4, Proverbs 10:24, Luke 14:24, Judges 10:14
27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.28 cross-references: Nahum 1:3, Proverbs 3:25–26, Romans 2:9, Revelation 6:15–17, Proverbs 10:24–25
28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:39 cross-references: Micah 3:4, James 4:3, Job 27:9, Isaiah 1:15, Zechariah 7:13
29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:33 cross-references: Proverbs 1:22, Job 21:14–15, Proverbs 6:23, Hebrews 11:25, Isaiah 27:11
30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.21 cross-references: Psalms 81:11, Proverbs 1:25, Luke 14:18–20, Jeremiah 8:9, Psalms 119:173
31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.36 cross-references: Proverbs 14:14, Proverbs 22:8, Job 4:8, Jeremiah 6:19, Galatians 6:7–8
32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.35 cross-references: Proverbs 8:36, Hebrews 12:25, John 3:36, Jeremiah 2:19, Luke 16:19–25
33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.25 cross-references: Psalms 25:12–13, Psalms 112:7–8, Isaiah 26:3, Luke 21:9, John 10:27–29

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