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diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_02_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_02_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..df7b5d5 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_021_PRO_02_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Proverbs. +Chapter 2. +My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind; +So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge; +Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge; +If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; +Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours. +For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason: +He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil; +He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him. +Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way. +For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul; +Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you; +Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false; +Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads; +Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner; +Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil: +To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue; +Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind: +For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades: +Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life: +So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright. +For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage. +But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted. |