TOPICAL BIBLE
Wisdom
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Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don’t know what they stumble over.Proverbs 4:20My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.Proverbs 4:21Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.Proverbs 4:22For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.Proverbs 5:12and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;Proverbs 7:2Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.Proverbs 7:3Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.Proverbs 7:4Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,Proverbs 8:1Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?Proverbs 8:2On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.Proverbs 8:3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:Proverbs 8:4“To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.Proverbs 8:5You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.Proverbs 8:6Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.Proverbs 8:7For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.Proverbs 8:8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.Proverbs 8:9They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.Proverbs 8:10Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.Proverbs 8:11For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.Proverbs 8:12“I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.Proverbs 8:13The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.Proverbs 8:14Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.Proverbs 8:15By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.Proverbs 8:16By me princes rule; nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.Proverbs 8:17I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.Proverbs 8:18With me are riches, honor, enduring wealth, and prosperity.Proverbs 8:19My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold; my yield than choice silver.Proverbs 8:20I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice;Proverbs 8:21That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.Proverbs 8:22“Yahweh possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.Proverbs 8:23I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.Proverbs 8:24When there were no depths, I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water.Proverbs 8:25Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was brought forth;Proverbs 8:26while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.Proverbs 8:27When he established the heavens, I was there; when he set a circle on the surface of the deep,Proverbs 8:28when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,Proverbs 8:29when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth;Proverbs 8:30then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,Proverbs 8:31Rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.Proverbs 8:32“Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.Proverbs 8:33Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.Proverbs 8:34Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me, finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.Proverbs 8:36But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”Proverbs 9:1Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.Proverbs 9:2She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table.Proverbs 9:3She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:Proverbs 9:4“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,Proverbs 9:5“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!Proverbs 9:6Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”Proverbs 9:9Instruct a wise man, and he will be still wiser. Teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.Proverbs 9:10The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.Proverbs 9:11For by me your days will be multiplied. The years of your life will be increased.Proverbs 9:12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself. If you mock, you alone will bear it.Proverbs 10:8The wise in heart accept commandments, but a chattering fool will fall.Proverbs 10:13Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.Proverbs 10:14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near ruin.Proverbs 10:21The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.Proverbs 10:23It is a fool’s pleasure to do wickedness, but wisdom is a man of understanding’s pleasure.Proverbs 11:9With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.