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Bible Reading for June 01

Proverbs 1
[1] The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; [2] To know
wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; [3] To
receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; [4]
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
[5] A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of
understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: [6] To understand a proverb,
and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
[7] The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise
wisdom and instruction.
[8] My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of
thy mother:
[9] For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
[10] My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. [11] If they say,
Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the
innocent without cause: [12] Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and
whole, as those that go down into the pit:
[13] We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
[14] Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: [15] My son, walk
not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
[16] For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. [17] Surely
in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. [18] And they lay wait
for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
[19] So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away
the life of the owners thereof.
[20] Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: [21] She
crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in
the city she uttereth her words, saying, [22] How long, ye simple ones,
will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and
fools hate knowledge? [23] Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out
my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
[24] Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand,
and no man regarded;
[25] But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my
reproof: [26] I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your
fear cometh; [27] When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction
cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. [28] Then
shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early,
but they shall not find me:
[29] For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the
LORD: [30] They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
[31] Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled
with their own devices.
[32] For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity
of fools shall destroy them.
[33] But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet
from fear of evil.

Proverbs 2
[1] My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
[2] So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to
understanding;
[3] Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
[4] If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
[5] Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
[6] For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
[7] He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them
that walk uprightly.
[8] He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
[9] Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity;
yea, every good path.
[10] When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
[11] Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: [12] To
deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh
froward things;
[13] Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
[14] Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
[15] Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: [16] To
deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which
flattereth with her words;
[17] Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
[18] For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. [19]
None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of
life.
[20] That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of
the righteous.
[21] For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
[22] But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors
shall be rooted out of it.

Proverbs 3
[1] My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
[2] For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
[3] Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write
them upon the table of thine heart: [4] So shalt thou find favour and good
understanding in the sight of God and man.
[5] Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding.
[6] In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. [7] Be
not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. [8] It
shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones. [9] Honour the LORD
with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
[10] So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst
out with new wine.
[11] My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of
his correction:
[12] For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in
whom he delighteth.
[13] Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
[14] For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver,
and the gain thereof than fine gold.
[15] She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire
are not to be compared unto her.
[16] Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
[17] Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. [18]
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every
one that retaineth her.
[19] The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he
established the heavens.
[20] By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.
[21] My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
[22] So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck. [23] Then
shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble. [24]
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down,
and thy sleep shall be sweet. [25] Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of
the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.
[26] For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
[27] Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power
of thine hand to do it.
[28] Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will
give; when thou hast it by thee.
[29] Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.
[30] Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.
[31] Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. [32] For the
froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.
[33] The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth
the habitation of the just.
[34] Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.
[35] The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of
fools.

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