Lectionary Calendar
Tuesday, November 26th, 2024
the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Proverbs 2

1 My son, if you accept my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you,2 To cause your ear to attend to wisdom, || You incline your heart to understanding,3 For if you call for intelligence, || [And] give forth your voice for intelligence,4 If you seek her as silver, || And search for her as hid treasures,5 Then you understand the fear of YHWH, || And you find the knowledge of God.6 For YHWH gives wisdom, || Knowledge and understanding from His mouth.7 Even to lay up substance for the upright, || A shield for those walking uprightly.8 To keep the paths of judgment, || And He preserves the way of His saints.9 Then you understand righteousness, || And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.

10 For wisdom comes into your heart, || And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,11 Thoughtfulness watches over you, || Understanding keeps you,12 To deliver you from an evil way, || From any speaking contrary things,13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, || To walk in ways of darkness,14 Who are rejoicing to do evil, || They delight in [the] contrariness of the wicked,15 Whose paths [are] crooked, || Indeed, they are perverted in their ways.16 To deliver you from the strange woman, || From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth,17 Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, || And has forgotten the covenant of her God.18 For her house has inclined to death, || And her paths to Rephaim.19 None going in to her return, || Nor do they reach the paths of life.20 That you go in the way of the good, || And keep the paths of the righteous.21 For the upright inhabit the earth, || And the perfect are left in it,22 And the wicked are cut off from the earth, || And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!

 
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