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Speaker 1: You're listening to the chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm
Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Proverbs chapter eight, and
Speaker 1: we'll be reading from the New English translation. Does not wisdom,
Speaker 1: call out, does not understanding? Raise her voice at the
Speaker 1: top of the elevated places along the way. At the
Speaker 1: intersection of the paths, she takes her stand beside the
Speaker 1: gates opening into the city. At the entrance of the doorways.
Speaker 1: She cries out to you, o people, I call out,
Speaker 1: and my voice calls to all mankind. You who are naive,
Speaker 1: discern wisdom, and you fools understand discernment. Listen, for I
Speaker 1: will speak excellent things, and my lips will utter what
Speaker 1: is right. For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips
Speaker 1: hate wickedness. All the words of my mouth are righteous.
Speaker 1: There is nothing in them twisted or crooked. All of
Speaker 1: them are clear to the discerning and upright to those
Speaker 1: who find knowledge. Receive my instruction rather than silver, and
Speaker 1: knowledge rather than choice gold, For wisdom is better than rubies,
Speaker 1: and desirable things cannot be compared to her. I wisdom,
Speaker 1: live with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion. The
Speaker 1: fear of the Lord is to hate evil. I hate
Speaker 1: arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances. Counsel
Speaker 1: and sound wisdom belong to me. I possess understanding and might.
Speaker 1: King's reign by means of me, and potentates decree righteousness
Speaker 1: by me, Prince's rule as well as nobles and all
Speaker 1: righteous judges. I love those who love me, and those
Speaker 1: who seek me find me. Riches and honor are with me,
Speaker 1: long lasting wealth and righteousness. My fruit is better than
Speaker 1: the purest gold, and what I produce is better than
Speaker 1: choice silver. I walk in the path of righteousness, in
Speaker 1: the pathway of justice, that I may cause those who
Speaker 1: love me to inherit wealth, and that I may fill
Speaker 1: their treasuries. The Lord created me as the beginning of
Speaker 1: his works, before his deeds of long ago. From eternity.
Speaker 1: I was appointed from the beginning, from before the world existed,
Speaker 1: when there were no deep oceans. I was born when
Speaker 1: there were no springs overflowing with water, before the mountains
Speaker 1: were set in place, before the hills. I was born
Speaker 1: before he made the earth and its fields or the
Speaker 1: beginning of the dust of the world. When he established
Speaker 1: the heavens, I was there when he marked out the
Speaker 1: horizon over the face of the deep, when he established
Speaker 1: the clouds above, when the fountains of the deep grew strong,
Speaker 1: when he gave the sea his decree that the waters
Speaker 1: should not pass over his command, when he marked out
Speaker 1: the foundations of the earth. Then I was beside him
Speaker 1: as a master craftsman, and I was his delight, day
Speaker 1: by day, rejoicing before him at all times, rejoicing in
Speaker 1: the habitable part of his earth and delighting in its people.
Speaker 1: So now, children, listen to me. Blessed are those who
Speaker 1: keep my ways. Listen to my instructions, so that you
Speaker 1: may be wise and do not neglect it. Yus. It
Speaker 1: is the one who listens to me, watching at my
Speaker 1: doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway. For the
Speaker 1: one who finds me finds life and receives favor from
Speaker 1: the Lord. But the one who does not find me
Speaker 1: brings harm to himself. All who hate me love death.
Speaker 1: Let's pray. Lord, We thank you for your word, and
Speaker 1: we thank you for the challenges that you give to
Speaker 1: us time and time again. In your word to seek
Speaker 1: and obtain wisdom, and we know Lord that ultimately that's
Speaker 1: only done through faith in your son, Jesus Christ. So
Speaker 1: Lord is believers in your son. We pray that you
Speaker 1: would grant us the gift of your wisdom, and we
Speaker 1: pray that we would apply that wisdom in every context
Speaker 1: of our day to day lives. We love you, Lord,
Speaker 1: and we're grateful for your presence with us today, and
Speaker 1: we commit this day to your care in Jesus' name. Amen,