Proverbs 1:8–19 · BSB
1:8
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
1:9
For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
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1:10
My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
1:11
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
1:12
let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
1:13
We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
1:14
Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—
1:15
my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
1:16
For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
1:17
How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
1:18
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
1:19
Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
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