Proverbs 2

1My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,Cross-references: Deut 6:6 · Job 23:12 · Ps 119:9 · Prov 1:3 · Prov 3:1 · Prov 4:1 · +10 more

2so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;Cross-references: Ps 90:12 · Ps 119:111 · Prov 18:1 · Prov 22:17 · Prov 23:12 · Eccl 7:25 · +5 more

3yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;Cross-references: 1Ki 3:9 · 1Chr 22:12 · Ps 25:4 · Ps 119:34 · Ps 119:73 · Ps 119:125 · +6 more

4if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;Cross-references: Job 3:21 · Job 28:12 · Ps 19:10 · Ps 119:14 · Ps 119:72 · Ps 119:127 · +10 more

5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.Cross-references: 2Chr 1:10 · Job 28:28 · Prov 1:7 · Prov 9:10 · Jer 9:24 · Jer 24:7 · +9 more

6For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.Cross-references: Ex 31:3 · 1Ki 3:9 · 1Ki 3:12 · 1Ki 4:29 · 1Chr 22:12 · Job 32:8 · +15 more

7He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,Cross-references: Job 28:8 · Ps 84:11 · Ps 144:2 · Prov 8:14 · Prov 14:8 · Prov 28:18 · +9 more

8that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.Cross-references: Deut 33:3 · Deut 33:26 · 1Sam 2:9 · Ps 1:6 · Ps 23:3 · Ps 37:23 · +13 more

9Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.Cross-references: Ps 25:8 · Ps 32:8 · Ps 119:99 · Ps 119:105 · Ps 143:8 · Prov 1:2 · +5 more

10For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.Cross-references: Job 23:12 · Ps 19:10 · Ps 104:34 · Ps 119:97 · Ps 119:103 · Ps 119:111 · +6 more

11Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,Cross-references: Ps 25:21 · Ps 119:9 · Prov 4:6 · Prov 6:22 · Eccl 9:15 · Eccl 10:10 · +1 more

12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things,Cross-references: Ps 17:4 · Ps 26:4 · Ps 101:4 · Ps 141:4 · Prov 1:10 · Prov 3:32 · +9 more

13who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness,Cross-references: Job 24:13 · Ps 14:3 · Ps 36:3 · Ps 82:5 · Prov 4:19 · Prov 21:16 · +14 more

14who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil,Cross-references: Prov 10:23 · Jer 11:15 · Hos 7:3 · Hab 1:15 · Zeph 3:11 · Luke 22:4 · +2 more

15who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths,Cross-references: Deut 32:5 · Ps 125:5 · Prov 21:8 · Isa 30:8 · Isa 59:8 · Phil 2:15

16to deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words,Cross-references: Gen 39:3 · Neh 13:26 · Prov 5:3 · Prov 6:24 · Prov 7:5 · Prov 22:14 · +3 more

17who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God;Cross-references: Prov 5:18 · Jer 3:4 · Ezek 16:8 · Ezek 16:59 · Mal 2:14

18for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.Cross-references: Prov 5:4 · Prov 6:26 · Prov 7:22 · Prov 9:18 · 1Cor 6:9 · Gal 5:19 · +3 more

19None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life.Cross-references: Ps 81:12 · Prov 4:18 · Eccl 7:26 · Jer 13:23 · Hos 4:14 · Matt 19:24 · +1 more

20Therefore walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.Cross-references: Ps 119:63 · Ps 119:115 · Prov 13:20 · Song 1:7 · Jer 6:16 · Heb 6:12 · +1 more

21For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.Cross-references: Job 1:1 · Job 42:12 · Ps 37:3 · Ps 37:9 · Ps 37:11 · Ps 37:22 · +4 more

22But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.Cross-references: Deut 7:22 · Deut 28:63 · Job 18:16 · Job 21:30 · Ps 37:20 · Ps 37:22 · +8 more