Proverbs - Chapter 2 | Good News Translation

  • 1. My child, learn what I teach you and never forget what I tell you to do.
  • 2. Listen to what is wise and try to understand it.
  • 3. Yes, beg for knowledge; plead for insight.
  • 4. Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure.
  • 5. If you do, you will know what it means to fear the LORD and you will succeed in learning about God.
  • 6. It is the LORD who gives wisdom; from him come knowledge and understanding.
  • 7. He provides help and protection for those who are righteous and honest.
  • 8. He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to him.
  • 9. If you listen to me, you will know what is right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do.
  • 10. You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure.
  • 11. Your insight and understanding will protect you
  • 12. and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say---
  • 13. those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin,
  • 14. those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil,
  • 15. unreliable people who cannot be trusted.
  • 16. You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk,
  • 17. who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows.
  • 18. If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead.
  • 19. No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life.
  • 20. So you must follow the example of good people and live a righteous life.
  • 21. Righteous people---people of integrity---will live in this land of ours.
  • 22. But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.
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