English Bible Presentation Sharing - Proverbs Book, chapter 2, verse 19 in Net Version

Proverbs 2 : 1 (NET)

My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,

Proverbs 2 : 2 (NET)

by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,

Proverbs 2 : 3 (NET)

indeed, if you call out for discernment� raise your voice for understanding�

Proverbs 2 : 4 (NET)

if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,

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then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.

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For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

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He stores up effective counsel for the upright, and is like a shield for those who live with integrity,

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to guard the paths of the righteous and to protect the way of his pious ones.

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Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity� every good way.

Proverbs 2 : 10 (NET)

For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.

Proverbs 2 : 11 (NET)

Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,

Proverbs 2 : 12 (NET)

to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,

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who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,

Proverbs 2 : 14 (NET)

who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;

Proverbs 2 : 15 (NET)

whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

Proverbs 2 : 16 (NET)

to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;

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who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.

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For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.

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None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.

Proverbs 2 : 20 (NET)

So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.

Proverbs 2 : 21 (NET)

For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,

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but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.