Proverbs 2
New International Version - Proverbs 2 << | >> 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 2:1 My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, 2:2 turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, 2:3 and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, 2:4 and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, 2:5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. 2:6 For the Lord gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. 2:7 He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, 2:8 for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones. 2:9 Then you will understand what is right and just and fair-every good path. 2:10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 2:11 Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. 2:12 Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, 2:13 who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways, 2:14 who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, 2:15 whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways. 2:16 It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words, 2:17 who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. 2:18 For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. 2:19 None who go to her return or attain the paths of life. 2:20 Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous. 2:21 For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; 2:22 but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.