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wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:5 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 6, "text": "Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:6 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 7, "text": "The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:7 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 8, "text": "Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:8 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 9, "text": "She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:9 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 10, "text": "Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:10 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 11, "text": "I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:", "citation": "Proverbs 4:11 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 12, "text": "Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest, thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:12 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 13, "text": "Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:13 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 14, "text": "Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:14 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 15, "text": "Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:15 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 16, "text": "For they sleep not, except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:16 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 17, "text": "They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:17 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 18, "text": "But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards, and increaseth even to perfect day.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:18 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 19, "text": "The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:19 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 20, "text": "My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:20 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 21, "text": "Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:", "citation": "Proverbs 4:21 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 22, "text": "For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:22 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 23, "text": "With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:23 (Douay-Rheims)" }, { "verse": 24, "text": "Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from 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For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.", "citation": "Proverbs 4:27 (Douay-Rheims)" } ] }