Bible Memorization: Proverbs 1

The proverbs/of Solomon the son of David, king of \Israel;

To know/wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words\of understanding;

To receive/the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and \equity;

To give/subtlety to the simple, to the young man \knowledge and discretion.

A wise man will/hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise \counsels:

To understand/a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark\sayings.

The fear/of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and\instruction.

My son, hear/the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy\mother:

For they/shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains\about thy neck.

Wisdom crieth/without; she uttereth her voice in the\streets:

She crieth/in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, \saying,

How/long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate\knowledge?

Turn/you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words \ unto you.

Because/I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man \ regarded;

But ye/have set at nought all my counsel, and would none \of my reproof:

I also/will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your \fear cometh;

When your/fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh \ upon you.

Then shall/they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find\me:

For that/they hated knowledge, and did not choose the \fear of the LORD:

They/would none of my counsel: they despised \all my reproof.

Therefore/shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own \devices.

For the turning/away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of \fools shall destroy them.

But whoso/hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear \of evil.

My son, if/thou wilt receive my words, and \hide my commandments with thee;

So that/thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart \to understanding;

Yea,/if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice \for understanding;

If/thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for \hid treasures;

Then shalt thou understand the/fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge \of God.

For the LORD giveth/wisdom: out of his mouth cometh \knowledge and understanding.

He layeth/ up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that \walk uprightly.

He keepeth/the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his \saints.

Then shalt thou understand righteousness,/and judgment, and equity; yea, every good \path.

When wisdom/entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is \pleasant unto thy soul;

Discretion/shall preserve thee, \ understanding shall keep thee:

To deliver thee from the way/of the evil man, from the man that speaketh \froward things;

Who leave/the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways \of darkness;

Who rejoice/to do evil, and delight in the \frowardness of the wicked;

Whose/ways are crooked, and they froward in \their paths:

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

Which/forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of \her God.

For her/house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the \dead.

None/that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the \paths of life.

That/thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the \paths of the righteous.

For the upright/shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall \ remain in it.

But the/wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out \of it.

My son, forget/not my law; but let thine heart keep my \commandments:

For length/of days, and long life, and peace, shall they \add to thee.

Let/not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy \neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

So shalt/thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God \and man.

Trust/in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine \own understanding.

In/all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct \thy paths.

Be not wise/in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, \and depart from evil.

It/shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to \thy bones.

Honour/the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all \thine increase:

So shall thy/ barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new \wine.

My son, despise/not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his \correction:

For whom/the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he \delighteth.

Happy/is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man \that getteth understanding.

For the merchandise/of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than \fine gold.

She is more/precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared \ unto her.

Length/of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand \ riches and honour.

Her/ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths \are peace.

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

The LORD/ by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the \heavens.

By/his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the \dew.

My son, let/not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound \wisdom and discretion:

So shall they/ be life unto thy soul, and grace \to thy neck.

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

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

Be not afraid/of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when \it cometh.

For the LORD shall/ be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being \taken.

Withhold/not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to \do it.

Say/not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast \it by thee.

Devise/not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth \securely by thee.

Strive/not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no \harm.

Envy/thou not the oppressor, and choose none of \his ways.

For the froward/is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is \with the righteous.

The curse/of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the \just.

Surely/he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the \lowly.

The wise/shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the \promotion of fools.

Get/wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of \my mouth.

Forsake/her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and \she shall keep thee.

Wisdom is/the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting \ get understanding.

Exalt/her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost \embrace her.

She shall/ give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she \deliver to thee.

Hear,/O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be \many.

I have/taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in \ right paths.

When thou goest,/thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou \shalt not stumble.

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

Enter/not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of \evil men.