The Value of Wisdom

(A)My son, (B)if you receive my words
    and treasure up my commandments with you,

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Moral Benefits of Wisdom

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

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Trust in the Lord with All Your Heart

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

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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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to receive instruction in wise dealing,
    in (A)righteousness, justice, and equity;

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

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47 If anyone (A)hears my words and does not keep them, (B)I do not judge him; for (C)I did not come to judge the world but to save the world. 48 (D)The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; (E)the word that I have spoken will judge him (F)on the last day.

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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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Warning Against the Adulteress

(A)My son, keep my words
    and (B)treasure up my commandments with you;

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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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A Father's Wise Instruction

(A)Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
    and be attentive, that you may (B)gain[a] insight,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:1 Hebrew know

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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And (A)these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. (B)You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. (C)You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. (D)You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

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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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20 (A)My son, be attentive to my words;
    incline your ear to my sayings.
21 (B)Let them not escape from your sight;
    (C)keep them within your heart.
22 For they are (D)life to those who find them,
    and healing to all their[a] flesh.

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  1. Proverbs 4:22 Hebrew his

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

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

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12 I have not departed from the commandment of his lips;
    I have (A)treasured the words of his mouth more than my (B)portion of food.

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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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Beth

How can (A)a young man keep his way pure?
    By guarding it according to your word.
10 (B)With my whole heart I seek you;
    let me not (C)wander from your commandments!
11 I have (D)stored up your word in my heart,
    that I might not sin against you.

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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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51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And (A)his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.

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51 Then he went down to Nazareth with them(A) and was obedient to them. But his mother treasured all these things in her heart.(B)

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

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

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