Proverbs 4:4-25

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.

¹⁶For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.

¹⁷For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.

¹⁸But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day.

¹⁹The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.

²⁰My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.

²¹Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.

²²For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.

²³Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.

²⁴Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

²⁵Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyelids direct thy way before thee.