{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/pro002.htm","path":"bib/kjv/pro002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/pro002.htm","text":"1\u00a0My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;\n \n2\u00a0So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;\n \n3\u00a0Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;\n \n4\u00a0If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;\n \n5\u00a0Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.\n \n6\u00a0For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.\n \n7\u00a0He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.\n \n8\u00a0He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.\n \n9\u00a0Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.\n \n10\u00a0When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;\n \n11\u00a0Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:\n \n12\u00a0To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;\n \n13\u00a0Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;\n \n14\u00a0Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;\n \n15\u00a0Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:\n \n16\u00a0To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;\n \n17\u00a0Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.\n \n18\u00a0For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.\n \n19\u00a0None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.\n \n20\u00a0That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.\n \n21\u00a0For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.\n \n22\u00a0But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.","title":"King James Version: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 2","type":"page"}