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turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—
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For the Lord gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
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Wisdom Bestows Well-Being
My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart,
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Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
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Then he taught me, and he said to me, “Take hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands, and you will live.
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Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart;
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Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
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Keep your mouth free of perversity; keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
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You will say, “How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction!
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you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth.
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A troublemaker and a villain, who goes about with a corrupt mouth,
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who plots evil with deceit in his heart— he always stirs up conflict.
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a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil,
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Bind them always on your heart; fasten them around your neck.
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Do not lust in your heart after her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
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Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
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Do not let your heart turn to her ways or stray into her paths.
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You who are simple, gain prudence; you who are foolish, set your hearts on it.
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My mouth speaks what is true, for my lips detest wickedness.
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All the words of my mouth are just; none of them is crooked or perverse.
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Blessings crown the head of the righteous, but violence overwhelms the mouth of the wicked.
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The wise in heart accept commands, but a chattering fool comes to ruin.
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The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.
