Proverbs 2 (NET)

Proverbs 2:1¹My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands inside yourself,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 3:1Prov 1:3Prov 4:1Deut 6:6-9John 12:47-48Prov 7:1Prov 4:20-22Prov 6:21Ps 119:9-11Job 23:12

Proverbs 2:2²by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 23:12Prov 18:1Matt 13:9Ps 119:111-112Ps 90:12Prov 22:17-21Acts 17:11Eccl 7:25Eccl 8:16Eccl 8:9

Proverbs 2:3³indeed, if you call out for discernment — shout loudly for understanding—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 1:5Eph 1:17-18Prov 3:61 Kgs 3:9-12Ps 25:4-5Ps 119:125Ps 119:1691 Chr 22:12Luke 11:13Ps 119:34

Proverbs 2:4⁴if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 13:44Matt 19:29Prov 16:16Job 28:12-20Job 3:21Prov 8:18-19Eccl 4:8Luke 16:8Matt 19:21-22Matt 6:19-21

Proverbs 2:5⁵then you will understand how to fear the Lord, and you will discover knowledge about God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 1:7Jer 24:71 John 5:202 Chr 1:10-12Jer 32:40-41Luke 10:22Luke 11:9-13Jer 9:24Matt 11:27Hos 6:3

Proverbs 2:6⁶For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 1:17-18Jas 1:5Luke 21:15Isa 54:13Job 32:8Ps 119:98John 6:451 Kgs 3:12Dan 2:23Jas 1:17

Proverbs 2:7⁷He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jas 3:15-17Prov 30:5Ps 84:111 Cor 3:18-191 Cor 1:192 Tim 3:15-171 Cor 1:30Prov 28:181 Cor 2:6-7Col 2:3

Proverbs 2:8⁸to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 23:31 Sam 2:9John 10:28-29Ps 145:20Ps 66:9Ps 37:23-24Jude 1:24Ps 37:281 Pet 1:5Deut 33:3

Proverbs 2:9⁹Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity—every good way.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 6:16Isa 48:17Matt 7:13-14Ps 143:8-10Prov 1:2-6John 14:6Ps 119:99Ps 25:8-9Ps 32:8Isa 35:8

Proverbs 2:10¹⁰For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 15:16Col 3:16Job 23:12Prov 18:1-2Prov 24:13-14Ps 104:34Ps 119:162Ps 19:10Ps 119:111Prov 14:33

Proverbs 2:11¹¹Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eph 5:15Prov 4:6Ps 25:21Eccl 10:10Ps 119:9-11Eccl 9:15-18Prov 6:22-24

Proverbs 2:12¹²to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:33Prov 13:20Prov 8:132 Cor 6:17Isa 59:3-5Acts 20:30Prov 1:10-19Prov 16:28-30Prov 3:32Prov 4:14-17

Proverbs 2:13¹³who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:19-20Prov 4:191 John 2:192 Pet 2:20-22Prov 21:161 Thess 5:5-72 Tim 4:10Ezek 18:26Ezek 33:12-13Heb 6:4-6

Proverbs 2:14¹⁴who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 10:23Rom 1:32Jer 11:151 Cor 13:6Luke 22:4-5Hos 7:3Zeph 3:11Hab 1:15

Proverbs 2:15¹⁵whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 125:5Prov 21:8Deut 32:5Phil 2:15Isa 59:8Isa 30:8-13

Proverbs 2:16¹⁶to deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who has flattered you with her words;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 7:26Prov 22:14Prov 23:27Prov 6:24Prov 7:5-23Gen 39:3-12Neh 13:26-27Prov 29:5Prov 5:3-20

Proverbs 2:17¹⁷who leaves the husband from her younger days, and has ignored her marriage covenant made before God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 16:59-60Ezek 16:8Jer 3:4Mal 2:14-16Prov 5:18

Proverbs 2:18¹⁸For she has set her house by death, and her paths by the place of the departed spirits.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 6:9-11Prov 9:18Eph 5:5Gal 5:19-21Prov 5:4-14Rev 21:8Prov 6:26-35Prov 7:22-27Rev 22:15

Proverbs 2:19¹⁹None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Eccl 7:26Ps 81:12Hos 4:14Matt 19:24-26Heb 6:18Jer 13:23Prov 4:18

Proverbs 2:20²⁰So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 6:123 John 1:11Jer 6:16Prov 13:20Ps 119:115Ps 119:63Song 1:7-8

Proverbs 2:21²¹For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 84:11Ps 37:29Ps 37:9Prov 10:30Job 42:12Ps 37:11Ps 37:22Ps 37:3Job 1:1Ps 112:4-6

Proverbs 2:22²²but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 52:5Deut 7:22Isa 3:10-11Ps 37:28Deut 28:63-64Prov 10:30Ps 145:20Job 18:16-18Prov 5:22-23Job 21:30