{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/pro004.htm","path":"bib/kjv/pro004.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/pro004.htm","text":"1\u00a0Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.\n \n2\u00a0For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.\n \n3\u00a0For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.\n \n4\u00a0He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.\n \n5\u00a0Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.\n \n6\u00a0Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.\n \n7\u00a0Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.\n \n8\u00a0Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.\n \n9\u00a0She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.\n \n10\u00a0Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.\n \n11\u00a0I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.\n \n12\u00a0When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.\n \n13\u00a0Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.\n \n14\u00a0Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.\n \n15\u00a0Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.\n \n16\u00a0For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.\n \n17\u00a0For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.\n \n18\u00a0But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.\n \n19\u00a0The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.\n \n20\u00a0My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.\n \n21\u00a0Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.\n \n22\u00a0For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.\n \n23\u00a0Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.\n \n24\u00a0Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.\n \n25\u00a0Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.\n \n26\u00a0Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.\n \n27\u00a0Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.","title":"King James Version: Proverbs: Proverbs Chapter 4","type":"page"}