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