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Proverbs 2:11
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Proverbs 2:11
11Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
11Discretion shall preserue thee, vnderstanding shall keepe thee:
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Proverbs 2:11
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
Discretion
Wise choice of one from another.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
To keep safe from harm, loss, decay, or destruction; to protect, maintain, or save.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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understanding
Discernment, intelligence, comprehension, or the faculty of knowing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 11
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Open the full verse study15See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
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Open the full verse study6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
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Open the full verse study21Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
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Open the full verse study10If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
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Open the full verse study9Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
11Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
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Open the full verse study15Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
16Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
18Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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Open the full verse study22When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
24To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
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