Proverbs 1 NO HIGHLIGHTS HIGHLIGHTS
1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; Prov 10:1 ; Prov 25:1
1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. Prov 8:5
1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: Prov 9:9
1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. Psa 49:4 ; Psa 78:2
1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov 9:10 ; Eccl 12:13
1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Prov 20:20
1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. Gen 41:42
1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Psa 50:18 ; Eph 5:11
1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Prov 1:18
1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: Psa 28:1 ; Psa 124:3
1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: Psa 1:1 ; Psa 119:101
1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. Prov 15:27
1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: Prov 9:3 ; John 7:37
1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Psa 1:1 ; Prov 1:29
1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Isa 32:15
1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; Isa 23:23 ; Isa 23:23
1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: Psa 107:11 ; Prov 1:30
1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; Psa 2:4 ; Prov 10:24
1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: Job 27:9 ; Isa 1:15
1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: Prov 1:22
1:30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Psa 81:11 ; Prov 1:25
1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. Job 4:8 ; Prov 14:14
1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Jer 2:19
1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Psa 25:12