Proverbs 2

1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;AKJV — Proverbs 2:1

2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;AKJV — Proverbs 2:2

3 Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;AKJV — Proverbs 2:3

4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;AKJV — Proverbs 2:4

5 Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.AKJV — Proverbs 2:5

6 For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.AKJV — Proverbs 2:6

7 He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.AKJV — Proverbs 2:7

8 He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves the way of his saints.AKJV — Proverbs 2:8

9 Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yes, every good path.AKJV — Proverbs 2:9

10 When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;AKJV — Proverbs 2:10

11 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:AKJV — Proverbs 2:11

12 To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things;AKJV — Proverbs 2:12

13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;AKJV — Proverbs 2:13

14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;AKJV — Proverbs 2:14

15 Whose ways are crooked, and they fraudulent in their paths:AKJV — Proverbs 2:15

16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;AKJV — Proverbs 2:16

17 Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.AKJV — Proverbs 2:17

18 For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead.AKJV — Proverbs 2:18

19 None that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.AKJV — Proverbs 2:19

20 That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.AKJV — Proverbs 2:20

21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.AKJV — Proverbs 2:21

22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.AKJV — Proverbs 2:22