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Proverbs Monthly

Read through the book of Proverbs every month of the year.
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Proverbs 2

Chapter 2

Wisdom Will Enter into Your Heart[a]

My son, if you take my words to heart
    and look upon my instructions as a treasure,
attuning your ear to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding,
if you cry out for the gift of discernment[b]
    and plead for understanding,
if you seek for it as for silver
    and search for it as for buried treasure,
then you will understand the fear of the Lord[c]
    and discover the knowledge of God.
For the Lord himself is the one who bestows wisdom;
    from his mouth come forth knowledge and understanding.
He reserves his wisdom for the upright
    and is a shield to those who lead blameless lives,
for he guards the paths of justice
    and keeps watch over the way of his faithful ones.
Then you will understand equity and justice
    as well as righteousness—every good path.
10 For wisdom will enter your heart
    and knowledge will delight your soul.[d]
11 Prudence will protect you,
    and understanding will watch over you.
12 Thus, you will be preserved from the ways of evil
    and from those whose speech is perverse,[e]
13 who stray far from the straight paths[f]
    to walk along roads of darkness,
14 who take pleasure in doing evil
    and delight in leading perverse lives,
15 whose paths are crooked
    and whose ways are devious.
16 You will be saved from the wife of another,
    from the adulteress[g] with her seductive words,
17 who forsakes the partner of her youth
    and forgets her sacred covenant with God.
18 For her house leads downward to death[h]
    and her paths descend to the shades.
19 Anyone who goes to her never returns
    or regains the paths of life.
20 Take care, then, that you follow the way of the good
    and keep to the paths of the righteous.
21 For the upright will live in the land,[i]
    and those who are innocent will remain there.
22 However, the wicked will be cut off from the land,
    and those who are faithless will be uprooted from it.

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