Proverbs 4:2-15

²For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.

³For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,

⁴When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.

⁵Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.

⁶Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.

⁷Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding.

⁸Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.

⁹She shall giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shall giue thee a crowne of glorie.

¹⁰Heare, my sonne, and receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.

¹¹I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse.

¹²Whe thou goest, thy gate shall not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.

¹³Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.

¹⁴Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.

¹⁵Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.