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Proverbs
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Proverbs

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The chapter opens with a story of a man who boasts about his wealth and wisdom, only to be humbled when his pride leads to loss. It then contrasts his folly with the wisdom of Solomon, emphasizing that true wisdom is practical and humble.

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(1) My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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Proverbs 1:8Proverbs 3:1Luke 8:15Luke 11:28John 14:23John 15:20Revelation 1:3Revelation 22:9Proverbs 2:1Proverbs 2:2Proverbs 2:3Proverbs 2:4

(2) Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
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Proverbs 4:13Leviticus 18:5Isaiah 55:3John 12:49John 12:50John 14:21John 15:14I John 2:3I John 2:4I John 5:1I John 5:2I John 5:3

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Luke 6:42Romans 14:8Galatians 2:20Deuteronomy 19:21Luke 11:34

(3) Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
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Proverbs 3:3Proverbs 6:21Deuteronomy 6:8Deuteronomy 6:9Deuteronomy 11:18Deuteronomy 11:19Deuteronomy 11:20Isaiah 30:8Jeremiah 17:1Jeremiah 31:33II Corinthians 3:3

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Proverbs 3:3I John 2:13Exodus 26:35

(4) Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
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Proverbs 2:2Proverbs 2:3Proverbs 2:4Proverbs 4:6Proverbs 4:7Proverbs 4:8Job 17:14Song of Solomon 8:1Matthew 12:49Matthew 12:50Luke 11:27Luke 11:28

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

(5) That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
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Proverbs 2:16Proverbs 5:3Proverbs 6:24

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Proverbs 2:16

(6) For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
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Genesis 26:8II Samuel 6:16

(7) And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
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Proverbs 1:4Proverbs 1:22Proverbs 1:32Proverbs 8:5Proverbs 14:15Proverbs 14:18Proverbs 19:25Proverbs 22:3Proverbs 27:12Psalms 19:7Psalms 119:130Romans 16:18

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Deuteronomy 22:6Proverbs 10:13

(8) Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
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Proverbs 4:14Proverbs 4:15Proverbs 5:8Judges 16:1II Samuel 11:2II Samuel 11:3I Corinthians 6:18II Timothy 2:22Jude 1:23

(9) In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
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Genesis 39:11Job 24:13Job 24:14Job 24:15Romans 13:12Romans 13:13Romans 13:14Ephesians 5:11Exodus 12:6

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Micah 3:6

(10) And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.
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Genesis 38:14Genesis 38:15II Kings 9:22II Kings 9:30Isaiah 3:16Isaiah 3:17Isaiah 3:18Isaiah 3:19Isaiah 3:20Isaiah 3:21Isaiah 3:22Isaiah 3:23

(11) (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
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Proverbs 9:13Proverbs 25:24Proverbs 27:14Proverbs 27:15Proverbs 31:10Proverbs 31:11Proverbs 31:12Proverbs 31:13Proverbs 31:14Proverbs 31:15Proverbs 31:16Proverbs 31:17

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Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38John 15:4

(12) Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
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Proverbs 9:14Proverbs 23:28Jeremiah 2:20Jeremiah 2:33Jeremiah 2:36Jeremiah 3:2Ezekiel 16:24Ezekiel 16:25Ezekiel 16:31Revelation 18:3Revelation 18:23

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Psalms 10:9

(13) So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
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Genesis 39:7Genesis 39:12Numbers 25:1Numbers 25:6Numbers 25:7Numbers 25:8Numbers 31:16Ezekiel 16:33Revelation 2:20Isaiah 50:7Ezekiel 2:4Ezekiel 2:6

(15) Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
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Zephaniah 2:3

(16) I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
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Song of Solomon 1:16Song of Solomon 3:7Song of Solomon 3:8Song of Solomon 3:9Song of Solomon 3:10Revelation 2:22I Kings 10:28Isaiah 19:9Ezekiel 27:7

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Exodus 39:28Exodus 28:39Ezekiel 16:13Revelation 19:8Leviticus 16:4I Chronicles 15:27

(17) I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
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Song of Solomon 3:6Isaiah 57:7Isaiah 57:8Isaiah 57:9Psalms 45:8Song of Solomon 4:13Song of Solomon 4:14

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Song of Solomon 4:14

(18) Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
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Luke 6:32Hosea 3:1I John 2:15I John 4:16I John 4:18

(19) For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
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Matthew 20:11Matthew 24:43Luke 12:39Matthew 24:48Mark 13:34Mark 13:35Mark 13:36Luke 12:45Luke 12:46

(20) He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
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II Chronicles 2:4

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II Kings 12:4

(21) With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
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Proverbs 7:5Proverbs 5:3Judges 16:15Judges 16:16Judges 16:17Psalms 12:2I Samuel 28:23II Kings 4:8Luke 14:23Luke 24:29Acts 16:15II Corinthians 5:14

(22) He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
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Acts 14:13Job 13:27Jeremiah 20:2Acts 16:24

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Leviticus 11:42Joshua 19:12Ecclesiastes 3:21Joshua 10:10Mark 14:45James 1:24

(23) Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
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Numbers 25:8Numbers 25:9Proverbs 1:17Ecclesiastes 9:12Proverbs 9:18

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Leviticus 14:6Psalms 124:7Amos 3:5

(24) Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
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Proverbs 4:1Proverbs 5:7Proverbs 8:32Proverbs 8:33I Corinthians 4:14I Corinthians 4:15Galatians 4:19I John 2:1

(25) Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
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Proverbs 4:14Proverbs 4:15Proverbs 5:8Proverbs 6:25Proverbs 23:31Proverbs 23:32Proverbs 23:33Matthew 5:28Proverbs 5:23Psalms 119:176Isaiah 53:6

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Proverbs 3:17Jeremiah 18:15Ezekiel 48:11

(26) For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
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Proverbs 6:33Judges 16:21II Samuel 3:6II Samuel 3:7II Samuel 3:8II Samuel 3:27II Samuel 12:9II Samuel 12:10II Samuel 12:11I Kings 11:1I Kings 11:2Nehemiah 13:26

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Ezekiel 32:25Isaiah 28:7Haggai 2:4

(27) Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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Proverbs 2:18Proverbs 2:19Proverbs 5:5Proverbs 9:18Ecclesiastes 7:26

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Ezekiel 42:13

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