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Proverbs 3:2
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Proverbs 3:2
2For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
2For length of dayes, and †long life, and peace shall they adde to thee.
- Heb. yeeres of life.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 3:2
The extent from one end to another; also duration or a stated span of time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
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The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
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Freedom from war, strife, disturbance, or inward trouble; quietness, reconciliation, safety, or well-being, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To join or put with something else; to increase by bringing or giving more.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study1CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
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Open the full verse study10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
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Open the full verse study16With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
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Open the full verse study11For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.
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Open the full verse study6Yea, thou shalt see thy children’s children, and peace upon Israel.
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Open the full verse study13Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
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Open the full verse study4He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
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Open the full verse study165Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
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Open the full verse study27The fear of the Lord prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
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Open the full verse study26Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
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Open the full verse study1THEREFORE being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
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Open the full verse study8For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
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Open the full verse study17And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.
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Open the full verse study11Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
12What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?
13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
14Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.
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Open the full verse study16Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
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Open the full verse study19I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the Lord; and I will heal him.
20But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
21There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
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Open the full verse study17For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.
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