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Proverbs 2 (CEV)

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¹ My child, you must follow and treasure my teachings and my instructions. ² Keep in tune with wisdom and think what it means to have common sense. ³ Beg as loud as you can for good common sense. ⁴ Search for wisdom as you would search for silver or hidden treasure. ⁵ Then you will understand what it means to respect and to know the LORD God. ⁶ All wisdom comes from the LORD, and so do common sense and understanding. ⁷ God gives helpful advice to everyone who obeys him and protects all of those who live as they should. ⁸ God sees that justice is done, and he watches over everyone who is faithful to him. ⁹ With wisdom you will learn what is right and honest and fair. ¹⁰ Wisdom will control your mind, and you will be pleased with knowledge. ¹¹ Sound judgment and good sense will watch over you. ¹² Wisdom will protect you from evil schemes and from those liars ¹³ who turned from doing good to live in the darkness. ¹⁴ Most of all they enjoy being mean and deceitful. ¹⁵ They are dishonest themselves, and all they do is crooked. ¹⁶ Wisdom will protect you from the smooth talk of a sinful woman, ¹⁷ who breaks her wedding vows and leaves the man she married when she was young. ¹⁸ The road to her house leads down to the dark world of the dead. ¹⁹ Visit her, and you will never find the road to life again. ²⁰ Follow the example of good people and live an honest life. ²¹ If you are honest and innocent, you will keep your land; ²² if you do wrong and can never be trusted, you will be rooted out.