Book of Proverbs - Chapter 1

The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;

PROVERBS 1:1

To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

PROVERBS 1:2

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

PROVERBS 1:3

To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

PROVERBS 1:4

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels

PROVERBS 1:5

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

PROVERBS 1:6

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

PROVERBS 1:7

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother

PROVERBS 1:8

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

PROVERBS 1:9

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

PROVERBS 1:10

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause

PROVERBS 1:11

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit

PROVERBS 1:12

We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil

PROVERBS 1:13

Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse

PROVERBS 1:14

My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path

PROVERBS 1:15

For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

PROVERBS 1:16

Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

PROVERBS 1:17

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

PROVERBS 1:18

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

PROVERBS 1:19

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets

PROVERBS 1:20

She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates in the city she uttereth her words, saying,

PROVERBS 1:21

How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

PROVERBS 1:22

Turn you at my reproof behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

PROVERBS 1:23

Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;

PROVERBS 1:24

But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof

PROVERBS 1:25

I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

PROVERBS 1:26

When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

PROVERBS 1:27

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me

PROVERBS 1:28

For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD

PROVERBS 1:29

They would none of my counsel they despised all my reproof.

PROVERBS 1:30

Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

PROVERBS 1:31

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

PROVERBS 1:32

But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

PROVERBS 1:33

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Say, We believe in God and what was sent down to us, and what was sent down to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob and the Tribes, and what was given to Moses, Jesus and all the Prophets by their Lord
Quran 2:136

Jesus said to him, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me
John 14:6

Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I
John 14:28

Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord
Deuteronomy 6:4

The Creator of the heavens and the earth. He has made for you mates from yourselves, and for the cattle (also) mates. By this means He creates you (in the wombs)
Quran 42:11

O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians): Come to a word that is just between us and you, that we worship none but Allah, and that we associate no partners with Him, and that none of us shall take others as lords besides Allah
Quran 3:64

I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me
John 5:30

Indeed, We have revealed to you, (O Muhammad), as We revealed to Noah and the prophets after him. And we revealed to Abraham, Ishmael, Isaac, Jacob, the Descendants, Jesus, Job, Jonah, Aaron, and Solomon, and to David We gave the book (of Psalms)
Quran 4:163

Blessed be He Who has placed in the heaven big stars, and has placed therein a great lamp (sun), and a moon giving light. And He it is Who has put the night and the day in succession
Quran 25:61

He (Jesus) Himself stood in their midst and said to them, Peace be to you
Luke 24:36

O My servants who have transgressed against themselves, do not despair of the mercy of God. Indeed, God forgives all sins. Indeed, it is He who is the Forgiving, the Merciful
Quran 39: 53

Indeed, man is in loss, except those who have faith and do righteous deeds, and advise one another to truth and patience
Quran 103:1-3

The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord
Mark 12:29

Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God
John 20:17

And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?
Matthew 27:46

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.
John 13:16

Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind
Matthew 22:37

By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
John 5:30

Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
John 5:19

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Matthew 7:21

Remember the former things, those of long ago; I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me
Isaiah 49:9

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