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| [1]Heare O ye chyldren a fatherly instruction, & take good heede, that ye may learne vnderstanding |
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| [2]For I haue geuen you a good doctrine, forsake not ye my lawe |
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| [3]For when I my selfe was my fathers deare sonne, and tenderly beloued of my mother |
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| [4]He taught me also and sayde vnto me, let thyne heart receaue my wordes, kepe my commaundementes and thou shalt liue |
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| [5]Get thee wysdome, and get thee vnderstanding: forget not the wordes of my mouth, and shrinke not from them |
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| [6]Forsake her not, and she shall preserue thee, loue her, and she shall kepe thee |
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| [7]The chiefe poynt of wysdome, is to possesse wysdome: and before all thy goodes to get thee vnderstanding |
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| [8]Make much of her, and she shall promote thee, yea if thou embrace her, she shall bryng thee vnto honour |
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| [9]She shal beautifie thy head with manyfolde graces, and garnishe thee with a crowne of glory |
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| [10]Heare my sonne, and receaue my wordes, and the yeres of thy life shalbe many |
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| [11]I haue shewed thee the way of wysdome, & led thee into the right pathes |
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| [12]So that if thou goest in them, there shall no straitnesse hinder thee: & when thou runnest, thou shalt not fall |
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| [13]Take fast holde of doctrine, and let her not go: kepe her, for she is thy life |
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| [14]Come not in the pathe of the vngodlye, and walke not in the way of the wicked |
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| [15]Abhorre it and go not therein, depart aside, and passe ouer by it |
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| [16]For they sleepe not except they haue done mischiefe: and sleepe is taken from them, vntyll they haue done harme |
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| [17]For they eate the bread of wickednes, and drinke the wine of robberie |
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| [18]The path of the righteous shineth, as the light that is euer bryghter and bryghter vnto the perfect day |
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| [19]But the way of the vngodly is as the darkenesse, they knowe not where they fall |
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| [20]My sonne marke my wordes, and encline thyne eare vnto my sayinges |
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| [21]Let them not depart from thine eyes, but kepe them euen in the middest of thyne heart |
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| [22]For they are life vnto those that finde them, and health vnto all their bodyes |
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| [23]Kepe thyne heart with all diligence, for out of it issueth lyfe |
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| [24]Put away from thee a frowarde mouth, and let the lippes of slaunder be farre from thee |
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| [25]Let thyne eyes beholde that thyng that is right, and let thyne eye liddes loke straight before thee |
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| [26]Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy wayes be ordred aright |
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| [27]Turne not aside, neither to the right hande nor to the left: but wihholde thy foote from euyll |
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