Proverbs 1 (NET)

Proverbs 1:1¹The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:2²To learn wisdom and moral instruction, to discern wise counsel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:3³To receive moral instruction in skillful living, with righteousness, justice, and equity.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:4⁴To impart shrewdness to the morally naive, a discerning plan to the young person.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:5⁵(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance! )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:6⁶To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:7⁷Fearing the Lord is the beginning of discernment, but fools have despised wisdom and moral instruction.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:8⁸Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:9⁹For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:10¹⁰My child, if sinners try to entice you, do not consent!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:11¹¹If they say, “Come with us! We will lie in wait to shed blood; we will ambush an innocent person capriciously.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:12¹²We will swallow them alive like Sheol, those full of vigor like those going down to the Pit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:13¹³We will seize all kinds of precious wealth; we will fill our houses with plunder.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:14¹⁴Join with us! We will all share equally in what we steal.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:15¹⁵My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:16¹⁶for they are eager to inflict harm, and they hasten to shed blood.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:17¹⁷Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:18¹⁸but these men lie in wait for their own blood, they ambush their own lives!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:19¹⁹Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:20²⁰Wisdom calls out in the street, she shouts loudly in the plazas;Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:21²¹at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:22²²“How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:23²³You should respond to my rebuke. Then I would pour out my thoughts to you; I would make my words known to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:24²⁴However, because I called but you refused to listen, because I stretched out my hand but no one was paying attention,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:25²⁵and you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:26²⁶so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:27²⁷when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:28²⁸Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:29²⁹Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:30³⁰they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:31³¹Therefore they will eat from the fruit of their way, and they will be stuffed full of their own counsel.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:32³²For the waywardness of the simpletons will kill them, and the careless ease of fools will destroy them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Proverbs 1:33³³But the one who listens to me will live in security, and will be at ease from the dread of harm.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s