Proverbs 6:22–24

¹¹Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

²³Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

²⁴When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

¹¹Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

²⁴Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers.

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

³O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

¹⁴⁸Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

⁵⁴Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

⁹Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.

⁴Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.

¹⁸After this shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him.

¹⁹Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found.

²⁰Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

²¹And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

¹⁰⁵Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

¹⁹We 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:

⁸The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

³¹The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.

¹³Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

⁴He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

⁸¶ And unto this people thou shalt say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

²⁴The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

¹⁵The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.

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.

⁵Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.

²⁰To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

¹⁸She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

⁵Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.

¹⁷¶ Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

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

²⁶And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

¹⁶To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

³¶ For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

⁵That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.