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Proverbs 9

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Part of The Father's Call and Wisdom's Cry📖 Proverbs introduction

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1Wisdom has built her house, She has hewn out her seven pillars; ✦ 2She has slaughtered her meat, She has mixed her wine, She has also furnished her table. ✦ 3She has sent out her maidens, She cries out from the highest places of the city, ✦ 4“Whoeveris simple, let him turn in here!” As for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, ✦ 5“Come,eat of my bread And drink of the wine I have mixed. ✦ 6Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding. ✦ 7“He who corrects a scoffer gets shame for himself, And he who rebukes a wicked man only harms himself. ✦ 8Do not correct a scoffer, lest he hate you; Rebuke a wise man, and he will love you. ✦ 9Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning. ✦ 10“Thefear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. ✦ 11For by me your days will be multiplied, And years of life will be added to you. ✦ 12If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, And if you scoff, you will bear it alone.” ✦ 13A foolish woman is clamorous; She is simple, and knows nothing. ✦ 14For she sits at the door of her house, On a seat by the highest places of the city, ✦ 15To call to those who pass by, Who go straight on their way: ✦ 16“Whoeveris simple, let him turn in here”; And as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him, ✦ 17“Stolenwater is sweet, And bread eaten in secret is pleasant.” ✦ 18But he does not know that the dead are there, That her guests are in the depths of hell. ✦

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Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Where this chapter connects

Prov 9 ·8Prov 7 ·62 Pet 3 ·5Prov 23 ·5Prov 1 ·5Prov 8 ·3Matt 22 ·3Luke 14 ·3

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Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.

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