Proverbs 2:1 (BSB)
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

Proverbs 2:2 (BSB)
if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

Proverbs 2:3 (BSB)
if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

Proverbs 2:4 (BSB)
if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,

Proverbs 2:5 (BSB)
then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 2:6 (BSB)
For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

Proverbs 2:7 (BSB)
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,

Proverbs 2:8 (BSB)
to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.

Proverbs 2:9 (BSB)
Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.

Proverbs 2:10 (BSB)
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.

Proverbs 2:11 (BSB)
Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

Proverbs 2:12 (BSB)
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,

Proverbs 2:13 (BSB)
from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,

Proverbs 2:14 (BSB)
from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,

Proverbs 2:15 (BSB)
whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.

Proverbs 2:16 (BSB)
It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

Proverbs 2:17 (BSB)
who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

Proverbs 2:18 (BSB)
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

Proverbs 2:19 (BSB)
None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.

Proverbs 2:20 (BSB)
So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.

Proverbs 2:21 (BSB)
For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;

Proverbs 2:22 (BSB)
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
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