Proverbs Chapter One

1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

1 Kings 4:32  And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a thousand and five.

Eccl 12:9  And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 

4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Prov 9:9  Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.

6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Psalms 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:

7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Psalms 111:10  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

Eccl 12:13  Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 4:1  Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

Gen 39:7  And it came to pass after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Jer 5:26  For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Psalm 28:1  (A Psalm of David.) Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.

13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

Psalms 1:1  Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 119:101  I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Isaiah 59:7  Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

1 Tim 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:

John 7:37  In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

Joel 2:28  And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

Isaiah 66:4  I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

Jer 7:13  And now, because ye have done all these works, saith the LORD, and I spake unto you, rising up early and speaking, but ye heard not; and I called you, but ye answered not;

Zech 7:11  But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:

Psalms 107:11  Because they rebelled against the words of God, and contemned the counsel of the most High:

Luke 7:30  But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

Psalms 2:4  He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

Prov 10:24  The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.

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  Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

Isaiah 1:15  And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Jer 14:12  When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

Ezek 8:18  Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.

Mic 3:4  Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.

Zech 7:13  Therefore it is come to pass, that as he cried, and they would not hear; so they cried, and I would not hear, saith the LORD of hosts:

James 4:3  Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:

Job 21:14  Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Psalm 119:173  Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.

30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

Psalm 81:11  But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

Job 4:8  The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.

Isaiah 3:11  Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Jer 6:19  Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

Psalms
25:12  What man is he that feareth the LORD? him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose.
112:7  He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD.

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