Proverbs 8Proverbs 9Galatians 3.15-25Proverbs 8
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Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
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She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
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She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
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Unto you, O men, I call and my voice [is] to the sons of man.
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O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
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Hear for I will speak of excellent things and the opening of my lips [shall be] right things.
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For my mouth shall speak truth and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips.
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All the words of my mouth [are] in righteousness [there is] nothing froward or perverse in them.
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They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
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Receive my instruction, and not silver and knowledge rather than choice gold.
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For wisdom [is] better than rubies and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
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I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
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The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
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Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding I have strength.
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By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
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By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
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I love them that love me and those that seek me early shall find me.
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Riches and honour [are] with me [yea], durable riches and righteousness.
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My fruit [is] better than gold, yea, than fine gold and my revenue than choice silver.
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I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
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That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance and I will fill their treasures.
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The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
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I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
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When [there were] no depths, I was brought forth when [there were] no fountains abounding with water.
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Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
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While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
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When he prepared the heavens, I [was] there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
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When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
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When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
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Then I was by him, [as] one brought up [with him]: and I was daily [his] delight, rejoicing always before him
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Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth and my delights [were] with the sons of men.
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Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed [are they that] keep my ways.
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Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
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Blessed [is] the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
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For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
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But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Proverbs 9
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Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
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She hath killed her beasts she hath mingled her wine she hath also furnished her table.
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She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
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Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine [which] I have mingled.
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Forsake the foolish, and live and go in the way of understanding.
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He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked [man getteth] himself a blot.
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Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
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Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.
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The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding.
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For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
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If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but [if] thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear [it].
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A foolish woman [is] clamorous: [she is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
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For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
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To call passengers who go right on their ways:
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Whoso [is] simple, let him turn in hither: and [as for] him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
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Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
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But he knoweth not that the dead [are] there [and that] her guests [are] in the depths of hell.
Galatians 3
15-25
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Brethren, I speak after the manner of men Though [it be] but a man's covenant, yet [if it be] confirmed, no man disannulleth, or addeth thereto.
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Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.
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And this I say, [that] the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
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For if the inheritance [be] of the law, [it is] no more of promise: but God gave [it] to Abraham by promise.
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Wherefore then [serveth] the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made [and it was] ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.
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Now a mediator is not [a mediator] of one, but God is one.
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[Is] the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.
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But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.
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But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
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Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
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But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
