PROVERBS 1:3-14

³To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness and judgment and equity;

⁴To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion:

⁵That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; and that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

⁶To understand a proverb, and a figure; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

⁷The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

⁸My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

⁹For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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

¹¹If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;

¹²Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit;

¹³We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil;

¹⁴Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; we will all have one purse: