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17 [a]For the first step toward Wisdom is an earnest desire for discipline;(A)
18     then, care for discipline is love of her;
    love means the keeping of her laws;
To observe her laws is the basis for incorruptibility;
19     and incorruptibility makes one close to God;

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  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.

17 Wisdom begins when you sincerely want to learn. To desire Wisdom is to love her; 18 to love her is to keep her laws; to keep her laws is to be certain of immortality; 19 immortality will bring you close to God.

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