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Proverbs 2
1¶ My 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.
10¶ When 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.
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Adultery: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:16–19
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words / who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. / For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
Alliance and Society with the Enemies of God: Means of Preservation From Proverbs 2:10–20
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. / Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, / to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
Backsliders: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:17
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Character of the Wicked: Delighting in the Iniquity of Others Proverbs 2:14
from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
Chastity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:10, 11, 16–22
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. / Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, / It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Chastity: Preserved by Wisdom Proverbs 2:10, 11, 16
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul. / Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, / It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Company: Evil Proverbs 2:11, 12, 16, 19
Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you, / to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity, / It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Darkness: A Course of Sin Proverbs 2:13
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
Death of the Wicked Proverbs 2:22
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
Desire: Spiritual Proverbs 2:3–5
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, / if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, / then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
Divorce: Women: Could Obtain Proverbs 2:17
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Falsehood: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:12–15
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity, / from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness, / from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
Fear of God: Reverence Proverbs 2:5
then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
Forgetting God: A Characteristic of the Wicked Proverbs 2:17
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
Gifts from God: Spiritual: Wisdom Proverbs 2:6
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
God: Preserver Proverbs 2:7, 8
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity, / to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
God: Providence of Proverbs 2:21
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
Godly Fear: Searching the Scriptures Gives the Understanding of Proverbs 2:3–5
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, / if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, / then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
Harlot (Prostitute): Shamelessness of Proverbs 2:16
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
Having Integrity Proverbs 2:7
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
Houses: The Flat Roofs of had often Booths on Them Proverbs 2:19
None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
Hunger: Spiritual Proverbs 2:3–5
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, / if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, / then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
Integrity: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:2, 5, 9
if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, / then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God. / Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
Judgments: Different Kinds of Destruction Proverbs 2:22
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
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Proverbs 2:1-9 Verses 1-9
Those who earnestly seek heavenly wisdom, will never complain that they have lost their labour; and the freeness of the gift does not do away the necessity of our diligence, Joh 6:27 Let them seek, and they shall find it; let them ask, and it shall be given them. Observe who are thus favoured. They are the righteous, on whom the image of God is renewed, which consists in righteousness. If we depend upon God, and seek to him for wisdom, he will enable us to keep the paths of judgment.
Proverbs 2:10-22 Verses 10-22
If we are truly wise, we shall be careful to avoid all evil company and evil practices. When wisdom has dominion over us, then it not only fills the head, but enters into the heart, and will preserve, both against corruptions within and temptations without. The ways of sin are ways of darkness, uncomfortable and unsafe: what fools are those who leave the plain, pleasant, lightsome paths of uprightness, to walk in such ways! They take pleasure in sin; both in committing it, and in seeing others commit it. Every wise man will shun such company. True wisdom will also preserve from those who lead to fleshly lusts, which defile the body, that living temple, and war against the soul. These are evils which excite the sorrow of every serious mind, and cause every reflecting parent to look upon his children with anxiety, lest they should be entangled in such fatal snares. Let the sufferings of others be our warnings. Our Lord Jesus deters from sinful pleasures, by the everlasting torments which follow them. It is very rare that any who are caught in this snare of the devil, recover themselves; so much is the heart hardened, and the mind blinded, by the deceitfulness of this sin. Many think that this caution, besides the literal sense, is to be understood as a caution against idolatry, and subjecting the soul to the body, by seeking any forbidden object. The righteous must leave the earth as well as the wicked; but the earth is a very different thing to them. To the wicked it is all the heaven they ever shall have; to the righteous it is the place of preparation for heaven. And is it all one to us, whether we share with the wicked in the miseries of their latter end, or share those everlasting joys that shall crown believers?