Proverbs Chapters 1-3 (Kjv)

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

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Proverbs 1:1

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

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Proverbs 1:2

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

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Proverbs 1:3

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

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Proverbs 1:4

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

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Proverbs 1:5

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

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Proverbs 1:6

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

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Proverbs 1:7

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

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Proverbs 1:8

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

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Proverbs 1:9

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

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Proverbs 1:10

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

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Proverbs 1:11

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

Back 12

Proverbs 1:12

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

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Proverbs 1:13

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

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Proverbs 1:14

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

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Proverbs 1:15

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

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Proverbs 1:16

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

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Proverbs 1:17

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

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Proverbs 1:18

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

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Proverbs 1:19

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

Back 20

Proverbs 1:20

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

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Proverbs 1:21

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

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Proverbs 1:22

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

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Proverbs 1:23

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

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Proverbs 1:24

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

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Proverbs 1:25

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

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Proverbs 1:26

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

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Proverbs 1:27

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Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:

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Proverbs 1:28

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

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Proverbs 1:29

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

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Proverbs 1:30

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

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Proverbs 1:31

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

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Proverbs 1:32

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

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Proverbs 1:33

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My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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Proverbs 2:1

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So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

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Proverbs 2:2

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Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

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Proverbs 2:3

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If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;

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Proverbs 2:4

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Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

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Proverbs 2:5

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For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

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Proverbs 2:6

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He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

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Proverbs 2:7

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He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

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Proverbs 2:8

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Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

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Proverbs 2:9

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When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

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Proverbs 2:10

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Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

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Proverbs 2:11

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To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things;

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Proverbs 2:12

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Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

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Proverbs 2:13

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Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;

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Proverbs 2:14

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Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:

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Proverbs 2:15

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To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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Proverbs 2:16

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Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

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Proverbs 2:17

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For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

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Proverbs 2:18

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None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

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Proverbs 2:19

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That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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Proverbs 2:20

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For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

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Proverbs 2:21

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But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

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Proverbs 2:22

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My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:

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Proverbs 3:1

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For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

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Proverbs 3:2

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Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

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Proverbs 3:3

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So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

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Proverbs 3:4

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Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

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Proverbs 3:5

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In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

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Proverbs 3:6

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Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

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Proverbs 3:7

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It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

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Proverbs 3:8

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Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

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Proverbs 3:9

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So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

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Proverbs 3:10

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My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

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Proverbs 3:11

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For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

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Proverbs 3:12

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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

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Proverbs 3:13

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For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

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Proverbs 3:14

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She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

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Proverbs 3:15

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Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.

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Proverbs 3:16

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Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

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Proverbs 3:17

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She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

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Proverbs 3:18

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The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

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Proverbs 3:19

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By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

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Proverbs 3:20

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My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

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Proverbs 3:21

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So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

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Proverbs 3:22

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Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

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Proverbs 3:23

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When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

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Proverbs 3:24

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Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

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Proverbs 3:25

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For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

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Proverbs 3:26

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Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

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Proverbs 3:27

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Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

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Proverbs 3:28

Front 84

Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

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Proverbs 3:29

Front 85

Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

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Proverbs 3:30

Front 86

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

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Proverbs 3:31

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For the froward is abomination to the Lord: but his secret is with the righteous.

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Proverbs 3:32

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The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

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Proverbs 3:33

Front 89

Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

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Proverbs 3:34

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The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

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Proverbs 3:35