Proverbs 2

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The Pursuit of Wisdom Brings Security

My son, if you will receive my words
And treasure my commandments within you,
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Make your ear attentive to wisdom,
Incline your heart to understanding;
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For if you cry for discernment,
Lift your voice for understanding;
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If you seek her as silver
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
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Then you will discern the fear of the Lord
And discover the knowledge of God.
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For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
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He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
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Guarding the paths of justice,
And He preserves the way of His godly ones.
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Then you will discern righteousness and justice
And equity and every good course.
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For wisdom will enter your heart
And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
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Discretion will guard you,
Understanding will watch over you,
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To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things;
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From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
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Who delight in doing evil
And rejoice in the perversity of evil;
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Whose paths are crooked,
And who are devious in their ways;
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To deliver you from the strange woman,
From the adulteress who flatters with her words;
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That leaves the companion of her youth
And forgets the covenant of her God;
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For her house sinks down to death
And her tracks lead to the dead;
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None who go to her return again,
Nor do they reach the paths of life.
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So you will walk in the way of good men
And keep to the paths of the righteous.
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For the upright will live in the land
And the blameless will remain in it;
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But the wicked will be cut off from the land
And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

2 Timothy 3

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“Difficult Times Will Come”

But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. 2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these. 6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith. 9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also. 10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance, 11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me! 12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. 13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. 14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work.
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