#### Proverbs 1

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22} {23} {24} {25} {26} {27} {28} {29} {30} {31} {32} {33}

^ Pr 1.1: The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
^ Pr 1.2: To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
^ Pr 1.3: To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
^ Pr 1.4: To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
^ Pr 1.5: A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
^ Pr 1.6: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
^ Pr 1.7: The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
^ Pr 1.8: My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
^ Pr 1.9: For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
^ Pr 1.10: My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
^ Pr 1.11: If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
^ Pr 1.12: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
^ Pr 1.13: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
^ Pr 1.14: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
^ Pr 1.15: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
^ Pr 1.16: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
^ Pr 1.17: Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
^ Pr 1.18: And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
^ Pr 1.19: So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
^ Pr 1.20: Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
^ Pr 1.21: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
^ Pr 1.22: How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
^ Pr 1.23: Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
^ Pr 1.24: Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
^ Pr 1.25: But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
^ Pr 1.26: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
^ Pr 1.27: When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
^ Pr 1.28: Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
^ Pr 1.29: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
^ Pr 1.30: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
^ Pr 1.31: Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
^ Pr 1.32: For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
^ Pr 1.33: But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.