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Wisdom 6:15-17
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15 For setting your heart on her is the perfection of prudence,
    and whoever keeps vigil for her is quickly free from care;
16 Because she makes her rounds, seeking those worthy of her,
    and graciously appears to them on the way,
    and goes to meet them with full attention.(A)

17 [a]For the first step toward Wisdom is an earnest desire for discipline;(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 6:17–20 This type of reasoning approximates the rhetorical sorites, a series of statements in which the predicate of each becomes the subject of the next. Cf. Rom 5:3–5.
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