The Value of Wisdom

(A)My son, (B)if you receive my words
    and treasure up my commandments with 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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to receive instruction in wise dealing,
    in (A)righteousness, justice, and equity;

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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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Warning Against the Adulteress

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

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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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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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:22 Hebrew his

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

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

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10 (A)Hear, (B)my son, and accept my words,
    that (C)the years of your life may be many.

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15 The saying is (A)trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus (B)came into the world to save sinners, (C)of whom I am the foremost.

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44 “Let these words sink into your ears: (A)The Son of Man is about to be delivered into the hands of men.”

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The Parable of the Hidden Treasure

44 “The kingdom of heaven (A)is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy (B)he goes and sells all that he has and (C)buys that field.

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