Proverbs 12:1–2

¹⁰Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

⁷He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.

⁸Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

⁹⁷O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

⁹⁸Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.

⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

¹⁰⁰I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

¹THROUGH desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

¹²And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

¹³And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

¹⁷I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

⁹Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

⁶A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

¹⁰And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

¹⁰¶ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

¹¹Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

³The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

³²Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

²⁷Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

³⁵For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

²⁴For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

⁵A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

⁷For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.

⁵The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

⁶For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

⁷The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

³¹Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

⁸There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

¹⁸An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

¹⁵The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.