Proverbs 2

¹My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;🔗🔍
²So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;🔗🔍
³Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;🔗🔍
⁴If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;🔗🔍
⁵Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.🔗🔍
⁶For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.🔗🔍
⁷He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.🔗🔍
⁸He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.🔗🔍
⁹Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.🔗🔍
¹⁰When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;🔗🔍
¹¹Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:🔗🔍
¹²To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;🔗🔍
¹³Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;🔗🔍
¹⁴Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;🔗🔍
¹⁵Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:🔗🔍
¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;🔗🔍
¹⁷Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.🔗🔍
¹⁸For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.🔗🔍
¹⁹None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.🔗🔍
²⁰That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.🔗🔍
²¹For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.🔗🔍
²²But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.🔗🔍