Proverbs 22 (NET)

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Proverbs 22:1¹A good name is to be chosen rather than great wealth, good favor more than silver or gold.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:2²The rich and the poor are met together; the Lord is the Creator of them both.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:3³A shrewd person saw danger and hid himself, but the naive passed on by and paid for it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:4⁴The reward for humility and fearing the Lord is riches and honor and life.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:5⁵Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:6⁶Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:7⁷The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:8⁸The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:9⁹A generous person will be blessed, for he has given some of his food to the poor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:10¹⁰Drive out the scorner and contention will leave; strife and insults will cease.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:11¹¹The one who loves a pure heart and whose speech is gracious —the king will be his friend.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:12¹²The eyes of the Lord watched over a cause, and subverted the words of the treacherous person.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:13¹³The sluggard has said, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the middle of the streets!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:14¹⁴The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the Lord is angry will fall into it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:15¹⁵Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:16¹⁶The one who oppresses the poor to increase his own gain and the one who gives to the rich —both end up only in poverty.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:17¹⁷Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my instruction.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:18¹⁸For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:19¹⁹So that your confidence may be in the Lord, I hereby make them known to you today—even you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:20²⁰Have I not written thirty sayings for you, sayings of counsel and knowledge,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:21²¹to show you true and reliable words, so that you may give accurate answers to those who sent you?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:22²²Do not exploit a poor person because he is poor and do not crush the needy in court,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:23²³for the Lord will plead their case and will rob the life of those who are robbing them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:24²⁴Do not make friends with an angry person, and do not associate with a wrathful person,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:25²⁵lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:26²⁶Do not be one who strikes hands in pledge or who puts up security for debts.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:27²⁷If you do not have enough to pay, your bed will be taken right out from under you!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:28²⁸Do not move an ancient boundary stone that was put in place by your ancestors.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

Proverbs 22:29²⁹You have seen a person skilled in his work— he will take his position before kings; he will not take his position before obscure people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions

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