Proverbs 2 · Clearspring

The Benefits of Wisdom

¹My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,+ ²if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,+ ³if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,+ ⁴if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,+ ⁵then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.+ ⁶For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.+ ⁷He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,+ ⁸to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.+ ⁹Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity— every good path.+ ¹⁰For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.+ ¹¹Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,+ ¹²to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,+ ¹³from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,+ ¹⁴from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,+ ¹⁵whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.+ ¹⁶It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words+ ¹⁷who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.+ ¹⁸For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.+ ¹⁹None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.+ ²⁰So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.+ ²¹For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;+ ²²but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.+

The Benefits of Wisdom

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