Proverbs 1

¹The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 10:11 Chr 22:91 Chr 28:5Eccl 1:11 Kgs 2:121 Kgs 4:31-32Prov 25:12 Sam 12:24-25Eccl 12:91 Chr 29:28

²To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 7:4Deut 4:5-61 Kgs 3:9-122 Tim 3:15-17Prov 17:16Prov 16:16Prov 4:5-7Prov 8:5

³To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 2:1-9Job 22:221 Kgs 3:28Prov 8:10-11

⁴To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 8:5Prov 8:17Ps 119:9Prov 8:12Prov 8:32Prov 9:4-6Ps 119:1302 Tim 2:22Isa 35:8Prov 1:22-23

⁵A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 12:1Prov 9:91 Cor 10:15Job 34:10Job 34:16Ps 119:98-100Job 34:342 Chr 25:161 Sam 25:32-33

⁶To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 78:2Mark 4:11Ps 49:4Acts 8:30-31Heb 5:14Mark 4:34Eccl 12:11Matt 13:10-17Matt 13:34-352 Pet 3:16

⁷The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Job 28:28Ps 111:10-112:1Eccl 12:13Prov 9:10Prov 15:33Prov 18:2Prov 1:22Prov 1:29-30Rom 1:28Prov 15:5

⁸My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 6:20Prov 30:17Prov 5:1-2Prov 2:1Prov 31:12 Tim 1:5Deut 21:18-21Lev 19:3Prov 1:10Prov 4:1-4

⁹For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Dan 5:29Prov 4:9Gen 41:42Prov 3:22Prov 6:20-21Ezek 16:11Isa 3:19Song 1:101 Pet 3:3-41 Tim 2:9-10

¹⁰My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 5:11Prov 16:29Ps 1:1Prov 13:20Deut 13:8Rom 16:18Prov 7:21-23Prov 20:19Ps 50:18Gen 39:7-13

¹¹If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 1:18Jer 5:26Prov 12:6Acts 25:3Jer 18:18-20Acts 23:15Jer 11:19John 15:25Matt 26:3-4Mic 7:2

¹²Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 124:3Ps 28:1Rom 3:13Jer 51:34Lam 2:16Lam 2:5Mic 3:2-3Num 16:30-33Num 26:10Ps 143:7

¹³We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Tim 6:9-10Job 24:2-3Luke 12:15Hag 2:9Isa 10:13-14Jer 22:16-17Nah 2:12Prov 1:19Rev 18:9-16

¹⁴Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁵My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 119:101Ps 1:1Prov 4:14-15Prov 4:27Ps 26:4-52 Cor 6:17Prov 13:20Prov 9:6Prov 5:8Jer 14:10

¹⁶For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 59:7Prov 6:18Prov 4:16Rom 3:5

¹⁷Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 8:7Job 35:11Prov 7:23Isa 1:3

¹⁸And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 9:16Esth 7:10Prov 28:17Prov 5:22-23Ps 7:14-16Matt 27:4-5Ps 55:23Prov 9:17-18

¹⁹So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 15:272 Pet 2:3Hab 2:9Jas 5:1-4Jer 22:17-19Mic 2:1-3Prov 23:3-41 Tim 3:32 Kgs 5:20-27Acts 8:19-20

²⁰Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 9:3Col 2:31 Cor 1:24Luke 11:49Prov 8:1-51 Cor 1:30Matt 13:54John 7:37

²¹She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 5:20Matt 10:27Matt 13:2Prov 9:3John 18:20

²²How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Pet 3:3John 3:20Prov 1:29Prov 5:12Ps 1:1Luke 19:42Matt 11:29-30Matt 9:13Rev 22:17Prov 19:29

²³Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Acts 3:19Ezek 33:11Ezek 18:27-30Acts 2:36-38Joel 2:28Isa 32:15Isa 55:6-7Prov 12:1Acts 26:20Isa 55:1-3

²⁴Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 65:12Rom 10:21Jer 7:13Isa 66:4Heb 12:25-26Ezek 8:18Matt 22:5-6Zech 7:11-12Isa 50:2Matt 23:37-38

²⁵But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Luke 7:30Ps 81:11Prov 1:30Prov 12:1Ps 107:112 Chr 36:16Prov 5:12

²⁶I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 10:24Ps 2:4Ps 37:13Luke 14:24Prov 6:15Judg 10:14

²⁷When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 3:25-261 Thess 5:3Isa 17:13Luke 21:23-26Luke 21:34-35Nah 1:3Prov 10:24-25Ps 58:9Ps 69:22-28Rom 2:9

²⁸Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Mic 3:4Isa 1:15Jas 4:3Jer 11:11Zech 7:13Matt 25:10-12Job 27:91 Sam 8:18Jer 14:12Ps 18:41

²⁹For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 6:23Job 21:14-15Prov 1:22Heb 11:25Isa 27:11Acts 7:51-54John 3:20Luke 10:42Prov 5:12Ps 50:16-17

³⁰They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 1:25Ps 81:11Jer 8:9Luke 14:18-20Ps 119:173Ps 119:111

³¹Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 14:14Jer 6:19Job 4:8Prov 22:8Gal 6:7-8Isa 3:10-11Jer 2:19

³²For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Prov 8:36Jer 2:19John 3:36Heb 12:25Luke 16:19-25Deut 32:15-44Heb 12:8Jas 5:5Jer 48:11-12Luke 12:16-21

³³But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 25:12-13Ps 112:7-8Isa 26:3John 10:27-29Prov 14:26Luke 21:9Prov 8:32-35Luke 21:19Prov 9:111 Pet 1:5