Proverbs 2:1-15 ▼

1 MY son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments in your heart,

2 And incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding,

3 Yea, if you cry after knowledge and lift up your voice to understanding,

4 If you seek it as silver, and search for it as for hidden treasure;

5 Then you will understand how to worship the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

6 For it is the LORD who gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

7 He stores up hope for the upright; he helps those who walk without blemish.

8 He keeps the paths of justice, and preserves the ways of his saints.

9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice and the uprightness of all good ways.

10 When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul.

11 Intelligence shall preserve you, and the understanding of the pious men shall deliver you;

12 That you might be delivered from evil ways, from men who speak perverse things,

13 Who forsake the path of uprightness to walk in the way of darkness;

14 Who rejoice to do evil and delight in the perverseness of evil things;

15 Men whose ways are crooked and whose paths are perverse.