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Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter today Audio Bible. I'm John Stogy,

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Speaker 1: and today we're in Proverbs chapter one, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: reading from the English Standard version, the Proverbs of Solomon,

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Speaker 1: son of David, King of Israel. To know wisdom and instruction,

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Speaker 1: to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing,

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Speaker 1: in righteousness, justice and equity, To give prudence to the simple,

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Speaker 1: knowledge and discretion to the youth. Let the wise here

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Speaker 1: and increase in learning. And the one who understands obtain

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Speaker 1: guidance to understand a proverb and a saying, the words

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Speaker 1: of the wise and their riddles. The fear of the

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Speaker 1: Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Hear,

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Speaker 1: my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching,

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Speaker 1: For they are a graceful garland for your head and

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Speaker 1: pendance for your neck. My son, if sinners entice, you

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Speaker 1: do not consent. If they say, come with us, let

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Speaker 1: us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the

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Speaker 1: innocent without reason like shee ol. Let us swallow them

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Speaker 1: alive and hole like those who go down to the pit.

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Speaker 1: We shall find all precious goods. We shall fill our

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Speaker 1: houses with plunder. Throw in your lot among us. We

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Speaker 1: will all have one purse. My son, do not walk

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Speaker 1: in the way with them. Hold back your foot from

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Speaker 1: their paths, for their feet run to evil, and they

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Speaker 1: make haste to shed blood. For in vain is a

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Speaker 1: net spread in the sight of any bird. But these

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Speaker 1: men lie in wait for their own blood. They set

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Speaker 1: an ambush for their own lives. Such are the ways

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Speaker 1: of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain. It takes

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Speaker 1: away the life of its possessors. Wisdom cries aloud in

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Speaker 1: the street, in the markets. She raises her voice at

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Speaker 1: the head of the noisy streets. She cries out at

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Speaker 1: the entrance of the city gates, she speaks, How long,

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Speaker 1: o simple ones, will you love being simple? How long

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Speaker 1: will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

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Speaker 1: If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour

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Speaker 1: out my spirit to you. I will make my words

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Speaker 1: known to you. Because I have called and you refuse

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Speaker 1: to listen. Have stretched out my hand and no one

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Speaker 1: has heeded, because you have ignored all my counsel and

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Speaker 1: would have none of my reproof. I also will laugh

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Speaker 1: at your calamity. I will mock when terror strikes you.

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Speaker 1: When terror strikes you like a storm, and your calamity

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Speaker 1: comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

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Speaker 1: Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer.

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Speaker 1: They will seek me diligently, but will not find me,

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Speaker 1: because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear

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Speaker 1: of the Lord, would have none of my counsel, and

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Speaker 1: despised all my reproof. Therefore they shall eat the fruit

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Speaker 1: of their way and have their fill of their own devices.

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Speaker 1: For the simple are killed by their turning away, and

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Speaker 1: the complacency of fools destroys them. But whoever listens to

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Speaker 1: me will dwell secure, and will be at ease without

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Speaker 1: read of disaster. Let's pray, Lord, we thank you for

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Speaker 1: your word, and we thank you for the privilege to

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Speaker 1: be able to look at this portion of Scripture today

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Speaker 1: and to start a new book in our study together.

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Speaker 1: And Lord, as we look at this particular chapter of Proverbs,

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Speaker 1: and as we continue our look at this entire book,

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Speaker 1: we pray Lord, that by your grace, that you would

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Speaker 1: grant us the gift of your wisdom, that you'd help

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Speaker 1: us to have knowledge and understanding of what brings you glory. Lord,

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Speaker 1: we pray that we would live with a healthy reverence

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Speaker 1: for you, that we would fear you in the sense

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Speaker 1: that we would avoid dishonoring your name or disrespecting you. Lord.

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Speaker 1: We know that you are the perfection of wisdom, and

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Speaker 1: that you grant us the gift of your wisdom through

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Speaker 1: faith in your son Jesus Christ. So Lord, we pray

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Speaker 1: that throughout the course of today and every day, that

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Speaker 1: we would walk in the wisdom that you supply, and

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Speaker 1: that we would bring glory to your name. We love you, Lord,

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Speaker 1: We thank you for your love for us, and commit

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Speaker 1: ourselves to you today and pray us all in Jesus' name. Amen,