The Pursuit of Wisdom Brings Security 1My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,
2Make your ear attentive to wisdom,
3For if you cry for discernment,
4If you seek her as silver
5Then you will discern the fear of the LORD
6For the LORD gives wisdom;
7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
8Guarding the paths of justice,
9Then you will discern righteousness and justice
10For wisdom will enter your heart
11Discretion will guard you,
12To deliver you from the way of evil,
13From those who leave the paths of uprightness
14Who delight in doing evil
15Whose paths are crooked,
16To deliver you from the strange woman,
17That leaves the companion of her youth
18For her house sinks down to death
19None who go to her return again,
20So you will walk in the way of good men
21For the upright will live in the land
22But the wicked will be cut off from the land New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org Bible Apps |