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- Heare, O ye children, the instruction of a father, and giue eare to learne vnderstanding.
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- For I doe giue you a good doctrine: therefore forsake yee not my lawe.
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- For I was my fathers sonne, tender and deare in the sight of my mother,
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- When he taught me, and sayde vnto me, Let thine heart holde fast my woordes: keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue.
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- Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.
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- Forsake her not, and shee shall keepe thee: loue her and shee shall preserue thee.
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- Wisedome is the beginning: get wisedome therefore: and aboue all thy possession get vnderstanding.
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- Exalt her, and she shall exalt thee: she shall bring thee to honour, if thou embrace her.
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- She shal giue a comely ornamet vnto thine head, yea, she shal giue thee a crowne of glorie.
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- Heare, my sonne, & receiue my wordes, and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.
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- I haue taught thee in ye way of wisedom, and led thee in the pathes of righteousnesse.
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- Whe thou goest, thy gate shal not be strait, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall.
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- Take holde of instruction, and leaue not: keepe her, for shee is thy life.
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- Enter not into the way of the wicked, and walke not in the way of euill men.
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- Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.
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- For they can not sleepe, except they haue done euill, and their sleepe departeth except they cause some to fall.
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- For they eate the breade of wickednesse, and drinke the wine of violence.
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- But the way of the righteous shineth as the light, that shineth more and more vnto the perfite day.
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- The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
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- My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
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- Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart.
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- For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.
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- Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.
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- Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.
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- Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyeliddes direct thy way before thee.
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- Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright.
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- Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.
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