Proverbs 1:8
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Prologue: Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom
Warning Against the Invitation of Sinful Men
Proverbs 1:8
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8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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Proverbs 5:15-20
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15 Drink water from your own cistern,
running water from your own well.
16 Should your springs overflow in the streets,
your streams of water in the public squares?
17 Let them be yours alone,
never to be shared with strangers.
18 May your fountain(A) be blessed,
and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.(B)
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer(C)—
may her breasts satisfy you always,
may you ever be intoxicated with her love.
20 Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man’s wife?
Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman?
Proverbs 5:15-20
King James Version
15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
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Proverbs 6:20-22
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Warning Against Adultery
Proverbs 6:20-22
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20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
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Proverbs 12:4
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Proverbs 12:4
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4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
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Proverbs 13:24
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Proverbs 13:24
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24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.
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Proverbs 14:1
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14 The wise woman builds her house,(A)
but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.
Proverbs 14:1
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14 Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
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Proverbs 17:6
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6 Children’s children(A) are a crown to the aged,
and parents are the pride of their children.
Proverbs 17:6
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6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
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Proverbs 18:22
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Proverbs 18:22
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22 Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
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Proverbs 22:6
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Proverbs 22:6
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6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
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Proverbs 22:15
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15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child,
but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.(A)
Proverbs 22:15
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15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
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Proverbs 23:13-14
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Saying 13
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child;
if you punish them with the rod, they will not die.
14 Punish them with the rod
and save them from death.(A)
Proverbs 23:13-14
King James Version
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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Proverbs 24:3
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Saying 21
3 By wisdom a house is built,(A)
and through understanding it is established;
Proverbs 24:3
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3 Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
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Proverbs 29:15
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15 A rod and a reprimand impart wisdom,
but a child left undisciplined disgraces its mother.(A)
Proverbs 29:15
King James Version
15 The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
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