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Proverbs 4:1
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Proverbs 4:1
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Get Wisdom at Any Cost
Proverbs 4:1
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Proverbs 4:1
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Love wisdom
4 Hear, children, fatherly instruction;
pay attention to gain understanding.
Proverbs 4:1
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Proverbs 4:1
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4 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
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Proverbs 6:20
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Proverbs 6:20
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Warning Against Adultery
Proverbs 6:20
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Proverbs 6:20
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Danger of adultery
20 My son, keep your father’s command;
don’t abandon your mother’s instruction.
Proverbs 6:20
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Proverbs 6:20
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20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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Proverbs 19:13
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Proverbs 19:13
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Proverbs 19:13
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Proverbs 19:13
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13 A foolish son is a disaster to his father;
a contentious wife is like constant dripping.
Proverbs 19:13
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Proverbs 19:13
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13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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Proverbs 19:14
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Proverbs 19:14
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Proverbs 19:14
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Proverbs 19:14
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14 House and riches are an inheritance from one’s ancestors,
but an insightful wife is from the Lord.
Proverbs 19:14
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Proverbs 19:14
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14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.
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Proverbs 22:28
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Proverbs 22:28
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Saying 5
28 Do not move an ancient boundary stone(A)
set up by your ancestors.
Proverbs 22:28
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Proverbs 22:28
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28 Don’t remove an ancient boundary marker
that your ancestors established.
Proverbs 22:28
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Proverbs 22:28
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28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
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Proverbs 23:22-25
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Proverbs 23:22-25
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Saying 17
22 Listen to your father, who gave you life,
and do not despise your mother when she is old.(A)
23 Buy the truth and do not sell it—
wisdom, instruction and insight as well.(B)
24 The father of a righteous child has great joy;
a man who fathers a wise son rejoices in him.(C)
25 May your father and mother rejoice;
may she who gave you birth be joyful!(D)
Proverbs 23:22-25
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Proverbs 23:22-25
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22 Listen to your father, who gave you life;
don’t despise your elderly mother.
23 Buy truth and don’t sell it;
buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will be very happy;
the one who gives life to the wise will rejoice.
25 Your father and your mother will rejoice;
she who gave you birth will be happy.
Proverbs 23:22-25
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Proverbs 23:22-25
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22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
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Proverbs 29:3
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Proverbs 29:3
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Proverbs 29:3
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Proverbs 29:3
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3 A man who loves wisdom makes his father rejoice,
but one who spends time with prostitutes destroys riches.
Proverbs 29:3
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Proverbs 29:3
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3 Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
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