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Proverbs 2:7-22 (Listen)

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7 he stores up sound wisdom for the upright;

he is ba shield to those who cwalk in integrity,

8 guarding the paths of justice

and dwatching over the way of his esaints.

9 fThen you will understand grighteousness and justice

and equity, every good path;

10 for wisdom will come into your heart,

and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

11 hdiscretion will iwatch over you,

understanding will guard you,

12 delivering you from the way of evil,

from men of perverted speech,

13 who forsake the paths of uprightness

to jwalk in the ways of darkness,

14 who krejoice in doing evil

and ldelight in the perverseness of evil,

15 men whose mpaths are crooked,

nand who are odevious in their ways.

16 So pyou will be delivered from the forbidden1 woman,

from qthe adulteress2 with rher smooth words,

17 who forsakes sthe companion of her youth

and forgets tthe covenant of her God;

18 ufor her house sinks down to death,

and her paths to the departed;3

19 none who go to her come back,

nor do they regain the paths of life.

20 So you will walk in the way of the good

and keep to the paths of the righteous.

21 For the upright vwill inhabit the land,

and those with integrity will remain in it,

22 but the wicked will be wcut off from the land,

and the treacherous will be xrooted out of it.

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Proverbs 6:20-24 (Listen)

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Warnings Against Adultery

20 lMy son, keep your father's commandment,

land forsake not your mother's teaching.

21 mBind them on your heart always;

ntie them around your neck.

22 oWhen you walk, they1 will lead you;

owhen you lie down, they will pwatch over you;

and when you awake, they will talk with you.

23 For the commandment is qa lamp and the teaching a light,

and the rreproofs of discipline are the way of life,

24 to preserve you from the evil woman,2

from the smooth tongue of sthe adulteress.3

Proverbs 7:1-5 (Listen)

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Warning Against the Adulteress

7 hMy son, keep my words

and htreasure up my commandments with you;

2 ikeep my commandments and live;

keep my teaching as jthe apple of your eye;

3 kbind them on your fingers;

kwrite them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

and call insight your intimate friend,

5 to keep you from lthe forbidden1 woman,

from lthe adulteress2 with her smooth words.

Proverbs 10:19 (Listen)

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19 eWhen words are many, transgression is not lacking,

fbut whoever restrains his lips is prudent.

Proverbs 14:3 (Listen)

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3 By the mouth of a fool comes ja rod for his back,1

kbut the lips of the wise will preserve them.

Proverbs 18:10 (Listen)

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10 iThe name of the Lord is ja strong tower;

the righteous man runs into it and kis safe.

Proverbs 21:23 (Listen)

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23 cWhoever keeps his mouth and his tongue

dkeeps himself out of etrouble.

Proverbs 22:5 (Listen)

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5 uThorns and snares are in the way of the crooked;

whoever vguards his soul will keep far from them.

Proverbs 22:24-25 (Listen)

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24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger,

nor go with a wrathful man,

25 lest you learn his ways

and entangle yourself in a snare.