Moral Benefits of Wisdom

My son,(A) if you accept my words
    and store up my commands within you,

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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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Wisdom Bestows Well-Being

My son,(A) do not forget my teaching,(B)
    but keep my commands in your heart,

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My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

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for receiving instruction in prudent behavior,
    doing what is right and just and fair;

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To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

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47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world.(A) 48 There is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very words I have spoken will condemn them(B) at the last day.

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47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

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Get Wisdom at Any Cost

Listen, my sons,(A) to a father’s instruction;(B)
    pay attention and gain understanding.(C)

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Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

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Warning Against the Adulterous Woman

My son,(A) keep my words
    and store up my commands within you.

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My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

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These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts.(A) Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.(B) Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.(C) Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.(D)

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And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.

And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

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20 My son,(A) pay attention to what I say;
    turn your ear to my words.(B)
21 Do not let them out of your sight,(C)
    keep them within your heart;
22 for they are life to those who find them
    and health to one’s whole body.(D)

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20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

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21 Bind them always on your heart;
    fasten them around your neck.(A)

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21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

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ב Beth

How can a young person stay on the path of purity?(A)
    By living according to your word.(B)
10 I seek you with all my heart;(C)
    do not let me stray from your commands.(D)
11 I have hidden your word in my heart(E)
    that I might not sin(F) against you.

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Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.

11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

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12 I have not departed from the commands of his lips;(A)
    I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.(B)

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12 Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

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10 Listen, my son,(A) accept what I say,
    and the years of your life will be many.(B)

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10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

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19 But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.(A)

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19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.

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