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31 chapters in the book of Proverbs, one for every day of the month.

Great for starting a bible study.

Verses

  • Proverbs 1:1: The Proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:

  • Proverbs 1:2: To learn wisdom and moral instruction, and to discern wise counsel.

  • Proverbs 1:3: To receive moral instruction in skillful living, in righteousness, justice, and equity.

  • Proverbs 1:4: To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, and a discerning plan to the young person.

  • Proverbs 1:5: (Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)

  • Proverbs 1:6: To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.

  • Proverbs 1:7: Fearing the LORD is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

  • Proverbs 1:8: Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

  • Proverbs 1:9: For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

  • Proverbs 1:10: My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!

  • Proverbs 1:11: If they say, "Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.

  • Proverbs 1:12: We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.

  • Proverbs 1:13: We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.

  • Proverbs 1:14: Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal."

  • Proverbs 1:15: My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

  • Proverbs 1:16: for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.

  • Proverbs 1:17: Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,

  • Proverbs 1:18: but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!

  • Proverbs 1:19: Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

  • Proverbs 1:20: Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas;

  • Proverbs 1:21: at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:

  • Proverbs 1:22: "How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?

  • Proverbs 1:23: If only you will respond to my rebuke, then I will pour out my thoughts to you and I will make my words known to you.

  • Proverbs 1:24: However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one paid attention,

  • Proverbs 1:25: because you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,

  • Proverbs 1:26: so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,

  • Proverbs 1:27: when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

  • Proverbs 1:28: Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.

  • Proverbs 1:29: Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord,

  • Proverbs 1:30: they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.

  • Proverbs 1:31: Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.

  • Proverbs 1:32: For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.

  • Proverbs 1:33: But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.

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