Proverbs 2 · Clearspring

The Benefits of Wisdom

¹My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;+ ²So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;+ ³Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;+ ⁴If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;+ ⁵Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.+ ⁶For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:+ ⁷He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;+ ⁸He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.+ ⁹Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.+ ¹⁰For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;+ ¹¹Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;+ ¹²Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;+ ¹³Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;+ ¹⁴Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;+ ¹⁵Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:+ ¹⁶To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;+ ¹⁷Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:+ ¹⁸For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:+ ¹⁹Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:+ ²⁰So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.+ ²¹For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.+ ²²But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.+

The Benefits of Wisdom

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