Proverbs 2

My son, if you receive my words and treasure my commandments within you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice and watching over the way of his faithful ones. Then you will understand righteousness, justice, and fairness—every good path. For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will watch over you;
understanding will guard you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness, who rejoice in doing evil and delight in the perversity of evil, whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious. It will deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the unfaithful woman with her smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the departed. None who go to her return or regain the paths of life. So you will walk in the way of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will dwell in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it, but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be uprooted from it.

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