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with full narration by Alexander Scourby

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Proverbs Chapter 1

Proverbs
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Proverbs

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In this chapter the preacher warns that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and that those who delight in the Lord will prosper. He contrasts the path of the righteous with the wayward, showing that knowledge of God leads to life while ignorance leads to death.

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(1) The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
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Proverbs 10:1Proverbs 25:1I Kings 4:31I Kings 4:32Ecclesiastes 12:9John 16:25II Samuel 12:24II Samuel 12:25I Kings 2:12I Chronicles 22:9I Chronicles 28:5I Chronicles 29:28

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I Kings 1:51I Kings 1:53II Chronicles 9:1

(2) To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
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Proverbs 4:5Proverbs 4:6Proverbs 4:7Proverbs 7:4Proverbs 8:5Proverbs 16:16Proverbs 17:16Deuteronomy 4:5Deuteronomy 4:6I Kings 3:9I Kings 3:10I Kings 3:11

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Deuteronomy 4:6I Kings 4:30Proverbs 4:7Proverbs 10:13Proverbs 23:23Daniel 5:11

(3) To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
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Proverbs 2:1Proverbs 2:2Proverbs 2:3Proverbs 2:4Proverbs 2:5Proverbs 2:6Proverbs 2:7Proverbs 2:8Proverbs 2:9Proverbs 8:10Proverbs 8:11Job 22:22

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Job 36:17Isaiah 59:14I Kings 3:28Psalms 99:4I Kings 4:30

(4) To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
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Proverbs 1:22Proverbs 1:23Proverbs 8:5Proverbs 9:4Proverbs 9:5Proverbs 9:6Psalms 19:7Psalms 119:130Isaiah 35:8Proverbs 7:7Proverbs 7:8Proverbs 7:9

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Deuteronomy 22:6

(5) A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
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Proverbs 9:9Proverbs 12:1Job 34:10Job 34:16Job 34:34Psalms 119:98Psalms 119:99Psalms 119:100I Corinthians 10:15I Samuel 25:32I Samuel 25:33II Chronicles 25:16

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Deuteronomy 4:6Proverbs 9:9Proverbs 9:12Proverbs 13:20Proverbs 21:11Ecclesiastes 2:16

(6) To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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Matthew 13:10Matthew 13:11Matthew 13:12Matthew 13:13Matthew 13:14Matthew 13:15Matthew 13:16Matthew 13:17Matthew 13:51Matthew 13:52Mark 4:11Mark 4:34

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Daniel 2:24Daniel 4:18Daniel 5:15Daniel 12:10

(7) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Proverbs 9:10Job 28:28Psalms 111:10Psalms 112:1Ecclesiastes 12:13Proverbs 1:22Proverbs 1:29Proverbs 1:30Proverbs 5:12Proverbs 5:13Proverbs 15:5Proverbs 18:2

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Proverbs 9:10Ecclesiastes 1:16Ecclesiastes 7:12I Kings 4:30

(8) My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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Proverbs 1:10Proverbs 1:15Proverbs 2:1Proverbs 3:1Proverbs 7:1Matthew 9:2Matthew 9:22Proverbs 4:1Proverbs 4:2Proverbs 4:3Proverbs 4:4Proverbs 5:1

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Luke 12:53

(9) For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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Proverbs 3:22Proverbs 4:9Proverbs 6:20Proverbs 6:21I Timothy 2:9I Timothy 2:10I Peter 3:3I Peter 3:4Genesis 41:42Song of Solomon 1:10Song of Solomon 4:9Isaiah 3:19

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Romans 11:6I Corinthians 15:10

(10) My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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Proverbs 7:21Proverbs 7:22Proverbs 7:23Proverbs 13:20Proverbs 20:19Genesis 39:7Genesis 39:8Genesis 39:9Genesis 39:10Genesis 39:11Genesis 39:12Genesis 39:13

(11) If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
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Proverbs 1:16Proverbs 12:6Proverbs 30:14Psalms 56:6Psalms 64:5Psalms 64:6Jeremiah 5:26Micah 7:2Acts 23:15Acts 25:3Proverbs 1:18Psalms 10:8

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Proverbs 1:18

(12) Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
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Psalms 35:25Psalms 56:1Psalms 56:2Psalms 57:3Psalms 124:3Jeremiah 51:34Lamentations 2:5Lamentations 2:16Micah 3:2Micah 3:3Psalms 5:9Romans 3:13

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II Kings 10:14Psalms 30:3Revelation 9:2

(13) We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
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Proverbs 1:19Job 24:2Job 24:3Isaiah 10:13Isaiah 10:14Jeremiah 22:16Jeremiah 22:17Nahum 2:12Haggai 2:9Luke 12:15I Timothy 6:9I Timothy 6:10

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Exodus 10:6Ecclesiastes 8:17II Chronicles 20:25Jeremiah 19:13

(14) Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
(15) My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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Proverbs 4:14Proverbs 4:15Proverbs 9:6Proverbs 13:20Psalms 1:1Psalms 26:4Psalms 26:5II Corinthians 6:17Proverbs 4:27Proverbs 5:8Psalms 119:101Jeremiah 14:10

(16) For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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Proverbs 4:16Proverbs 6:18Isaiah 59:7Romans 3:5

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Isaiah 59:7Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38I Corinthians 9:24

(17) Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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Proverbs 7:23Job 35:11Isaiah 1:3Jeremiah 8:7

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Psalms 39:6Isaiah 49:4Jeremiah 44:25Leviticus 14:6Ezekiel 32:3

(18) And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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Proverbs 5:22Proverbs 5:23Proverbs 9:17Proverbs 9:18Proverbs 28:17Esther 7:10Psalms 7:14Psalms 7:15Psalms 7:16Psalms 9:16Psalms 55:23Matthew 27:4

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Proverbs 1:11II Samuel 19:5

(19) So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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Proverbs 15:27Proverbs 23:3Proverbs 23:4II Samuel 18:11II Samuel 18:12II Samuel 18:13II Kings 5:20II Kings 5:21II Kings 5:22II Kings 5:23II Kings 5:24II Kings 5:25

(20) Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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Matthew 13:54Luke 11:49I Corinthians 1:24I Corinthians 1:30Colossians 2:3Proverbs 8:1Proverbs 8:2Proverbs 8:3Proverbs 8:4Proverbs 8:5Proverbs 9:3John 7:37

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I Kings 4:30

(21) She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
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Proverbs 9:3Matthew 10:27Matthew 13:2John 18:20Acts 5:20

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Revelation 21:13Nehemiah 13:19

(22) How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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Proverbs 6:9Exodus 10:3Exodus 16:28Numbers 14:27Matthew 17:17Proverbs 7:7Proverbs 9:4Proverbs 9:5Proverbs 9:6Proverbs 9:16Proverbs 9:17Proverbs 9:18

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Luke 6:32Psalms 4:2Mark 12:38Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:16

(23) Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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Isaiah 55:1Isaiah 55:2Isaiah 55:3Isaiah 55:6Isaiah 55:7Jeremiah 3:14Ezekiel 18:27Ezekiel 18:28Ezekiel 18:29Ezekiel 18:30Ezekiel 33:11Hosea 14:1

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Ezekiel 33:11

(24) Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
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Isaiah 50:2Isaiah 65:12Isaiah 66:4Jeremiah 7:13Ezekiel 8:18Zechariah 7:11Zechariah 7:12Matthew 22:5Matthew 22:6Matthew 23:37Matthew 23:38Hebrews 12:25

(25) But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
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Proverbs 1:30II Chronicles 36:16Psalms 107:11Luke 7:30Proverbs 5:12Proverbs 12:1Psalms 81:11

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II Samuel 17:14

(26) I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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Judges 10:14Psalms 2:4Psalms 37:13Luke 14:24

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Proverbs 1:27Obadiah 1:13

(27) When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
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Proverbs 3:25Proverbs 3:26Proverbs 10:24Proverbs 10:25Psalms 69:22Psalms 69:23Psalms 69:24Psalms 69:25Psalms 69:26Psalms 69:27Psalms 69:28Luke 21:26

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Jeremiah 46:20I Kings 14:5II Kings 11:8II Chronicles 23:7Job 20:25Psalms 96:13

(28) Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
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Genesis 6:3Job 27:9Job 35:12Psalms 18:41Isaiah 1:15Jeremiah 11:11Jeremiah 14:12Ezekiel 8:18Micah 3:4Zechariah 7:13Matthew 7:22Matthew 7:23

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Ecclesiastes 8:17Job 13:22Deuteronomy 4:29Proverbs 8:17Hosea 5:15Zephaniah 2:3

(29) For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
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Proverbs 1:22Proverbs 5:12Proverbs 6:23Job 21:14Job 21:15Psalms 50:16Psalms 50:17Isaiah 27:11Isaiah 30:9Isaiah 30:10Isaiah 30:11Isaiah 30:12

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Deuteronomy 21:15

(30) They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
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Proverbs 1:25Psalms 81:11Psalms 119:111Psalms 119:173Jeremiah 8:9Luke 14:18Luke 14:19Luke 14:20

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II Samuel 17:14

(31) Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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Proverbs 14:14Proverbs 22:8Job 4:8Isaiah 3:10Isaiah 3:11Jeremiah 2:19Jeremiah 6:19Galatians 6:7Galatians 6:8

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Deuteronomy 28:4Deuteronomy 28:11Deuteronomy 30:9Ezekiel 47:12Matthew 12:33John 15:2

(32) For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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Proverbs 8:36John 3:36Hebrews 10:38Hebrews 10:39Hebrews 12:25Deuteronomy 32:15Deuteronomy 32:16Deuteronomy 32:17Deuteronomy 32:18Deuteronomy 32:19Deuteronomy 32:20Deuteronomy 32:21

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II Chronicles 20:23

(33) But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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Proverbs 8:32Proverbs 8:33Proverbs 8:34Proverbs 8:35Proverbs 9:11Psalms 25:12Psalms 25:13Psalms 81:13Isaiah 48:18Isaiah 55:3Matthew 17:5John 10:27

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