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Proverbs 22:20
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Proverbs 22:20
20Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge,
20Haue not I written to thee excellent things in counsailes and knowledge:
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Proverbs 22:20
To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Of surpassing worth, goodness, or quality.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Understanding or awareness gained by knowing; recognition; what is known.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
20Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
21For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
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Open the full verse study6Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
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Open the full verse study15And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.
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Open the full verse study6The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
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Open the full verse study12I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
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