Proverbs 1:2-12

²To know wisdom and instruction; to comprehend the sayings of understanding;

³To accept the instruction of intelligence, righteousness, and justice, and equity;

⁴To give to the simple prudence, to the youth knowledge and discretion.

⁵The wise will hear, and will increase his information; and the man of understanding will obtain wise counsels:

⁶To understand a proverb, and a sage sentence; the words of the wise, and their riddles.

⁷The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: wisdom and instruction fools alone despise.

⁸Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and cast not off the teaching of thy mother;

⁹For a wreath of grace are they unto thy head, and chains for thy throat.

¹⁰My son, if sinners wish to entice thee, consent thou not.

¹¹If they should say, Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood, let us watch in concealment for the uselessly innocent;

¹²We will swallow them up like the grave alive; and the men of integrity, as those that go down into the pit;