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• Proverbs 1:22  (Proverbs 1)

  “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?

  How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing

  and fools hate knowledge?

• Proverbs 3:3  (Proverbs 3)

  Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you;

  bind them around your neck;

  write them on the tablet of your heart.

• Proverbs 4:6  (Proverbs 4)

  Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;

  love her, and she will guard you.

• Proverbs 5:19  (Proverbs 5)

  a lovely deer, a graceful doe.

  Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight;

  be intoxicated1 always in her love.

  Footnotes

  [1] 5:19 Hebrew be led astray; also verse 20

• Proverbs 7:18  (Proverbs 7)

  Come, let us take our fill of love till morning;

  let us delight ourselves with love.

• Proverbs 8:17  (Proverbs 8)

  I love those who love me,

  and those who seek me diligently find me.

• Proverbs 8:21  (Proverbs 8)

  granting an inheritance to those who love me,

  and filling their treasuries.

• Proverbs 8:36  (Proverbs 8)

  but he who fails to find me injures himself;

  all who hate me love death.”

• Proverbs 9:8  (Proverbs 9)

  Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you;

  reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

• Proverbs 10:12  (Proverbs 10)

  Hatred stirs up strife,

  but love covers all offenses.

• Proverbs 14:22  (Proverbs 14)

  Do they not go astray who devise evil?

  Those who devise good meet1 steadfast love and faithfulness.

  Footnotes

  [1] 14:22 Or show

• Proverbs 15:17  (Proverbs 15)

  Better is a dinner of herbs where love is

  than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

• Proverbs 16:6  (Proverbs 16)

  By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,

  and by the fear of the Lord one turns away from evil.

• Proverbs 17:9  (Proverbs 17)

  Whoever covers an offense seeks love,

  but he who repeats a matter separates close friends.

• Proverbs 18:21  (Proverbs 18)

  Death and life are in the power of the tongue,

  and those who love it will eat its fruits.

• Proverbs 19:22  (Proverbs 19)

  What is desired in a man is steadfast love,

  and a poor man is better than a liar.

• Proverbs 20:6  (Proverbs 20)

  Many a man proclaims his own steadfast love,

  but a faithful man who can find?

• Proverbs 20:13  (Proverbs 20)

  Love not sleep, lest you come to poverty;

  open your eyes, and you will have plenty of bread.

• Proverbs 20:28  (Proverbs 20)

  Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king,

  and by steadfast love his throne is upheld.

• Proverbs 27:5  (Proverbs 27)

  Better is open rebuke

  than hidden love.