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Proverbs: My Son, Listen

A father speaking to his child — the "my son" passages of Proverbs, gathered in order.

10 items · 191 verses · 15 m 20 s of audio ready (191 of 191 verses, voice “Rooted Narrator”)

  1. 1
    Hear, my son, your father's instruction range
  2. 2
    If you receive my words range
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    Trust in the Lord with all your heart range
  4. 4
    Do not withhold good range
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    Get wisdom; guard your heart range
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    My son, be attentive to my wisdom range
  7. 7
    Go to the ant, O sluggard range
  8. 8
    Keep my commandments and live range
  9. 9
    Wisdom calls aloud range
  10. 10
    My son, if your heart is wise range

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Reading order — first 40 of 191

  1. Proverbs.1.8
    8Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
  2. 9For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
  3. 10My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
  4. 11If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
  5. 12let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.
  6. 13We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
  7. 14Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—
  8. 15my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.
  9. 16For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.
  10. 17How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!
  11. 18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
  12. 19Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
  13. 1My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
  14. 2if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,
  15. 3if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,
  16. 4if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
  17. 5then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
  18. 6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
  19. 7He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
  20. 8to guard the paths of justice and protect the way of His saints.
  21. 9Then you will discern righteousness and justice and equity—every good path.
  22. 10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will delight your soul.
  23. 11Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
  24. 12to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perversity,
  25. 13from those who leave the straight paths to walk in the ways of darkness,
  26. 14from those who enjoy doing evil and rejoice in the twistedness of evil,
  27. 15whose paths are crooked and whose ways are devious.
  28. 16It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words
  29. 17who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
  30. 18For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
  31. 19None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life.
  32. 20So you will follow in the ways of the good, and keep to the paths of the righteous.
  33. 21For the upright will inhabit the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
  34. 22but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be uprooted.
  35. 1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
  36. 2for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
  37. 3Never let loving devotion or faithfulness leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
  38. 4Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
  39. 5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
  40. 6in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.