Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, May 4th, 2024
the Fifth Week after Easter
the Fifth Week after Easter
Attention!
For 10¢ a day you can enjoy StudyLight.org ads
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Study Desk
General Bible Search
Passage Lookup: Proverbs 2
- General
- Interlinear
- Parallel
- Proximity
22 verses
Options 
Proverbs 2:1
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
My son,(a) if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:2
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding(b)—
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:3
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
indeed, if you call out for insight(c) and cry aloud for understanding,
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:4
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,(d)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:5
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.(e)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:6
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
For the Lord gives wisdom;(f) from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.(g)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:7
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
He holds success in store for the upright, he is a shield(h) to those whose walk is blameless,(i)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:8
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones.(j)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:9
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
Then you will understand(k) what is right and just and fair—every good path.
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:10
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
For wisdom will enter your heart,(l) and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:11
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.(m)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:12
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
Wisdom will save(n) you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse,
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:13
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
who have left the straight paths to walk in dark ways,(o)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:14
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,(p)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:15
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
whose paths are crooked(q) and who are devious in their ways.(r)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:16
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(s) from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:17
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a](t)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:18
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(u)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:19
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.(v)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:20
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
Proverbs 2:21
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
For the upright will live in the land,(w) and the blameless will remain in it;
Footnotes:
Cross References:
Proverbs 2:22
[ Read Chapter | Listen to Audio | View Context | Multi-Translations | Study Tools ]
but the wicked(x) will be cut off from the land,(y) and the unfaithful will be torn from it.(z)
Footnotes:
Cross References:
22 verses
Copyright Statement
New International Version
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
