Old/New Testament
1 ¶ The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel;
2 to know wisdom and chastening; to understand prudent words;
3 to receive the chastening of prudence, justice, judgment, and equity;
4 to give prudence to the simple, and to the young men knowledge and council.
5 If the wise will hear them, doctrine shall increase, and the man of understanding shall acquire wise counsel:
6 To understand a parable and the interpretation; the words of the wise and their enigmas.
7 ¶ The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and chastening.
8 My son, hearken unto the chastening of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9 For they shall be an increase of grace unto thy head and protection about thy neck.
10 ¶ My son, if sinners entice thee, do not consent.
11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause.
12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol and whole as those that go down into the pit;
13 We shall find all kinds of riches, we shall fill our houses with spoil.
14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
15 My son, do not walk in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
16 For their feet shall run to evil and make haste to shed blood.
17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 And they lay in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own souls.
19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which takes away the life of those who possess it.
20 ¶ Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
21 She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the entrance to the gates of the city she utters her words, saying,
22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and the fools hate knowledge?
23 Return at my reproof; behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
24 Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one responded;
25 for because ye have disregarded all my counsel and rejected my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes upon you;
27 when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.
28 Then they shall call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
29 Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
30 They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
31 Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own counsel.
32 For the rest of the ignorant shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
33 But whosoever hearkens unto me shall dwell safely and shall rest from the fear of evil.
2 ¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words and hide my commandments within thee
2 so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to intelligence,
3 yea, if thou criest for understanding and givest thy voice unto intelligence,
4 if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures,
5 then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD gives wisdom; out of his mouth comes knowledge and intelligence.
7 He keeps the person of the upright; he is a buckler to those that walk perfectly,
8 keeping the paths of judgment and the way of his merciful ones.
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity, yea, every good path.
10 ¶ When wisdom enters into thine heart and knowledge is sweet unto thy soul,
11 discretion shall preserve thee, intelligence shall keep thee
12 to deliver thee from the evil way, from the man that speaks perversion,
13 who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
14 who rejoice to do evil and delight in wicked perversion,
15 whose ways are crooked, and they are crooked in their paths;
16 to deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words,
17 who forsakes the prince of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
18 Therefore her house inclines unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
19 None that go unto her return again, neither do they take hold of the paths of life.
20 That thou may walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
16 ¶ Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of Galatia, do ye likewise.
2 Each first sabbath let each one of you set aside in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no collections when I come.
3 And when I come, whomever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem.
4 And if it is appropriate that I go also, they shall go with me.
5 ¶ Now I will come unto you, when I have passed through Macedonia, for I must pass through Macedonia.
6 And it may be that I will abide and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey wherever I go.
7 For I desire not to see you now in passing, but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permits.
8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
9 For a great and effectual door is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.
10 ¶ Now if Timothy comes, see that he may stay with you securely, for he does the work of the Lord, as I also do.
11 Let no man therefore despise him, but conduct him forth in peace that he may come unto me, for I look for him with the brothers.
12 As touching our brother Apollos, I greatly desired him to come unto you with some of the brothers, but his will was not at all to come at this time, but he will come when he shall have opportunity.
13 ¶ Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.
14 Let all your things be done with charity.
15 I beseech you, brethren (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia and that they have dedicated themselves to the ministry of the saints),
16 that ye submit yourselves unto such and to each one that helps and labours.
17 I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus, for they have filled your absence.
18 For they have refreshed my spirit and yours; therefore, acknowledge ye those that are such.
19 ¶ The congregations {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} that is in their house.
20 All the brothers greet you. Greet ye one another with a holy kiss.
21 The salutation of me, Paul, is with my own hand.
22 If any man does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema. Our Lord has come.
23 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
24 My charity in Christ Jesus be with you all. Amen.
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