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Proverbs 1
The Beginning Of Knowledge

Proverbs Chapter 1 • Daily Reading by Pastor Chopper Ward


Proverbs 1
King James Version

1
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

2
To know wisdom and instruction;
to perceive the words of understanding;​
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom,
justice, and judgment, and equity;​
4 To give subtilty to the simple,
to the young man knowledge and discretion.​
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning;
and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:​
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation;
the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.​
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge:
but fools despise wisdom and instruction.​

Shun Evil Counsel

8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father,
and forsake not the law of thy mother:​
9 For they shall be an ornament of grace 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 lay wait for blood,
let us lurk privily 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;
refrain thy foot from their path:​
16 For their feet run to evil,
and make haste to shed blood.​
17 Surely in vain the net is spread
in the sight of any bird.​
18 And they lay wait for their own blood;
they lurk privily for their own lives.​
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain;
which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.​

The Call Of Wisdom

20
Wisdom crieth without;
she uttereth her voice in the streets:​
21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse,
in the openings of the gates: in the city
she uttereth her words, saying,​
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity?
and the scorners delight in their scorning,
and fools hate knowledge?​
23 Turn you at my reproof:
behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you,
I will make known my words unto you.​
24 Because I have called, and ye refused;
I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;​
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel,
and would none of my reproof:​
26 I also will laugh at your calamity;
I will mock when your fear cometh;​
27 When your fear cometh as desolation,
and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind;
when distress and anguish cometh upon you.​

28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer;
they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:​
29 For that they hated knowledge,
and did not choose the fear of the Lord:​
30 They would none of my counsel:
they despised all my reproof.​
31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way,
and be filled with their own devices.​
32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them,
and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.​
33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely,
and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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