Proverbs 1 (NET)

Proverbs 1:1¹The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:2²To learn wisdom and moral instruction, to discern wise counsel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 7:4Deut 4:5-61 Kgs 3:9-122 Tim 3:15-17Prov 17:16Prov 16:16Prov 4:5-7Prov 8:5

Proverbs 1:3³To receive moral instruction in skillful living, with righteousness, justice, and equity.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 2:1-9Job 22:221 Kgs 3:28Prov 8:10-11

Proverbs 1:4⁴To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, a discerning plan to the young person.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:5⁵(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance! )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:6⁶To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:7⁷Fearing the Lord is the beginning of discernment, but fools have despised wisdom and moral instruction.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:8⁸Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:9⁹For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:10¹⁰My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:11Prov 16:29Ps 1:1Prov 13:20Deut 13:8Rom 16:18Prov 7:21-23Prov 20:19Ps 50:18Gen 39:7-13

Proverbs 1:11¹¹If they say, “Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 1:18Jer 5:26Prov 12:6Acts 25:3Jer 18:18-20Acts 23:15Jer 11:19John 15:25Matt 26:3-4Mic 7:2

Proverbs 1:12¹²We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 124:3Ps 28:1Rom 3:13Jer 51:34Lam 2:16Lam 2:5Mic 3:2-3Num 16:30-33Num 26:10Ps 143:7

Proverbs 1:13¹³We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:14¹⁴Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Proverbs 1:15¹⁵My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:16¹⁶for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:7Prov 6:18Prov 4:16Rom 3:5

Proverbs 1:17¹⁷Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 8:7Job 35:11Prov 7:23Isa 1:3

Proverbs 1:18¹⁸but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 9:16Esth 7:10Prov 28:17Prov 5:22-23Ps 7:14-16Matt 27:4-5Ps 55:23Prov 9:17-18

Proverbs 1:19¹⁹Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:20²⁰Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 9:3Col 2:31 Cor 1:24Luke 11:49Prov 8:1-51 Cor 1:30Matt 13:54John 7:37

Proverbs 1:21²¹at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 5:20Matt 10:27Matt 13:2Prov 9:3John 18:20

Proverbs 1:22²²“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:3John 3:20Prov 1:29Prov 5:12Ps 1:1Luke 19:42Matt 11:29-30Matt 9:13Rev 22:17Prov 19:29

Proverbs 1:23²³You should respond to my rebuke. Then I would pour out my thoughts to you; I would make my words known to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:24²⁴However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:25²⁵and you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 7:30Ps 81:11Prov 1:30Prov 12:1Ps 107:112 Chr 36:16Prov 5:12

Proverbs 1:26²⁶so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 10:24Ps 2:4Ps 37:13Luke 14:24Prov 6:15Judg 10:14

Proverbs 1:27²⁷when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:28²⁸Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mic 3:4Isa 1:15Jas 4:3Jer 11:11Zech 7:13Matt 25:10-12Job 27:91 Sam 8:18Jer 14:12Ps 18:41

Proverbs 1:29²⁹Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:30³⁰they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 1:25Ps 81:11Jer 8:9Luke 14:18-20Ps 119:173Ps 119:111

Proverbs 1:31³¹Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 14:14Jer 6:19Job 4:8Prov 22:8Gal 6:7-8Isa 3:10-11Jer 2:19

Proverbs 1:32³²For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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

Proverbs 1:33³³But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross 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