Proverbs 2:10-11
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10 When wisdom enters your heart,
and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11 discretion will preserve you;
understanding will keep you,
Proverbs 2:20
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20 So you may walk in the way of good men
and keep the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs 4:14-19
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14 Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not go in the way of evil men.
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
turn from it and pass on.
16 For they do not sleep unless they have done mischief;
and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.
18 But the path of the just is as the shining light,
that shines more and more unto the perfect day.
19 The way of the wicked is as darkness;
they do not know at what they stumble.
Proverbs 13:20
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20 He who walks with wise men will be wise,
but a companion of fools will be destroyed.
Proverbs 16:28
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28 A perverse man sows strife,
and a whisperer separates the best of friends.
Proverbs 17:12
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12 Let a man meet a bear robbed of her cubs
rather than a fool in his folly.
Proverbs 17:17
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17 A friend loves at all times,
and a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 18:24
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24 A man who has friends must show himself friendly,
and there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.
Proverbs 19:4
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4 Wealth makes many friends,
but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
Proverbs 19:6-7
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6 Many will entreat the favor of the prince,
and every man is a friend to him who gives gifts.
7 All the brothers of the poor hate him;
how much more do his friends go far from him!
He pursues them with words,
yet they abandon him.
Proverbs 20:19
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19 He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets;
therefore do not meddle with him who flatters with his lips.
Proverbs 22:24-25
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Saying Three
24 Make no friendship with an angry man,
and with a furious man you will not go,
25 lest you learn his ways
and get a snare to your soul.
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