Chief Apostle Verse CommentaryProverbsChapter 1Continuous chapter reading · KJV primary text · 33 verses0 readers0 returned0 live nowRequest Proverbs commentaryRequest Chapter 1Proverbs 1:1The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;+Proverbs 1:2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;+Proverbs 1:3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;+Proverbs 1:4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.+Proverbs 1:5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:+Proverbs 1:6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.+Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.+Proverbs 1:8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:+Proverbs 1:9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.+Proverbs 1:10My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.+Proverbs 1:11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:+Proverbs 1:12Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:+Proverbs 1:13We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:+Proverbs 1:14Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:+Proverbs 1:15My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:+Proverbs 1:16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.+Proverbs 1:17Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.+Proverbs 1:18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.+Proverbs 1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.+Proverbs 1:20Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:+Proverbs 1:21She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,+Proverbs 1:22How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?+Proverbs 1:23Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.+Proverbs 1:24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;+Proverbs 1:25But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:+Proverbs 1:26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;+Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.+Proverbs 1:28Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:+Proverbs 1:29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:+Proverbs 1:30They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.+Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.+Proverbs 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.+Proverbs 1:33But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.+