Proverbs, Chapter 1, verses 8-19

⁸ Hear, my son, your father’s instruction And do not forsake your mother’s teaching;	8 Pro 4:1 Pro 6:20
⁹ Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head And^b Lit necklacesornaments about your neck.	9 Pro 4:9 Gen 41:42 Dan 5:29
¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent.	10 Pro 16:29 Gen 39:7-10 Deu 13:8 Psa 50:18 Eph 5:11
¹¹ If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause;	11 Pro 12:6 Jer 5:26 Psa 10:8 Pro 1:18
¹² Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;	12 Psa 124:3 Psa 28:1
¹³ We will find all kinds of precious wealth, We will fill our houses with spoil;
¹⁴ Throw in your lot^c Lit in the midst of uswith us, We shall all have one purse,”
¹⁵ My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your feet from their path,	15 Psa 1:1 Pro 4:14 Psa 119:101
¹⁶ For their feet run to evil And they hasten to shed blood.	16 Pro 6:17 Pro 6:18 Isa 59:7
¹⁷ Indeed, it is^d Lit in vainuseless to spread the baited net In the sight of any^e Lit possessor of wingbird;
¹⁸ But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives.	18 Pro 11:19
¹⁹ So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence; It takes away the life of its possessors.	19 Pro 15:27


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