Proverbs 2:1
New International Version
Moral Benefits of Wisdom
2 My son,(A) if you accept my words
and store up my commands within you,
Proverbs 2:2
New International Version
2 turning your ear to wisdom
and applying your heart to understanding(A)—
Proverbs 2:16-19
New International Version
16 Wisdom will save you also from the adulterous woman,(A)
from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
17 who has left the partner of her youth
and ignored the covenant she made before God.[a](B)
18 Surely her house leads down to death
and her paths to the spirits of the dead.(C)
19 None who go to her return
or attain the paths of life.(D)
Footnotes
- Proverbs 2:17 Or covenant of her God
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