Proverbs 2 · Clearspring

The Benefits of Wisdom

¹My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,+ ²so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;+ ³yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;+ ⁴if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;+ ⁵then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.+ ⁶For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.+ ⁷He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,+ ⁸that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.+ ⁹Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.+ ¹⁰For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.+ ¹¹Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,+ ¹²to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,+ ¹³who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,+ ¹⁴who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,+ ¹⁵who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,+ ¹⁶to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,+ ¹⁷who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;+ ¹⁸for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.+ ¹⁹None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.+ ²⁰Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.+ ²¹For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.+ ²²But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.+

The Benefits of Wisdom

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