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Proverbs 9:6
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Proverbs 9:6
6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
6Forsake the foolish, and liue; and goe in the way of vnderstanding.
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Proverbs 9:6
To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart from. To leave; to withdraw from; to fail. To abandon; to renounce; to reject.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Lacking wisdom or sound judgment; acting without proper regard for truth or what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Having life; having respiration and other organic functions in operation, or in a capacity to operate; not dead; Having vegetable life; to continue in constantly or habitually.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understanding
Discernment, intelligence, comprehension, or the faculty of knowing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
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Open the full verse study11I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
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Open the full verse study24¶ Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
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Open the full verse study17Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
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Open the full verse study40And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
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Open the full verse study13¶ Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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Open the full verse study14¶ Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
15Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
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Open the full verse study35For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
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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 study115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
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Open the full verse study4I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.
5I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.
6I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O Lord:
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Open the full verse study10Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
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Open the full verse study4And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
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Open the full verse study17He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
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