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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Chapter a Day Audio Bible. I'm

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Speaker 1: John Stangey, and today we're in Proverbs chapter two, and

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Speaker 1: we'll be reading from the New American Standard Bible. My son,

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Speaker 1: if you will receive my words and treasure my commandments

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Speaker 1: within you, make your ear attentive to wisdom. Incline your

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Speaker 1: heart to understanding. For if you cry for discernment, lift

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Speaker 1: your voice for understanding. If you seek her as silver,

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Speaker 1: and search for her as for hidden treasures, then you

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Speaker 1: will discern the fear of the Lord and discover the

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Speaker 1: knowledge of God. For the Lord gives wisdom. From his

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Speaker 1: mouth come knowledge and understanding. He stores up sound wisdom

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Speaker 1: for the upright. He is a shield to those who

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Speaker 1: walk in integrity, guarding the paths of justice, and he

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Speaker 1: preserves the way of his godly ones. Then you will

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Speaker 1: discern righteousness and justice and equity and every good course.

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Speaker 1: For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be

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Speaker 1: pleasant to your soul. Discretion will guard you, understanding will

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Speaker 1: watch over you to deliver you from the way of evil,

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Speaker 1: from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who

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Speaker 1: leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways

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Speaker 1: of darkness, who delight in doing evil and rejoice in

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Speaker 1: the perversity of evil, whose paths are crooked, and who

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Speaker 1: are devious in their ways. To deliver you from the

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Speaker 1: strange woman, from the adulteress who flatters with her words,

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Speaker 1: that leaves the companion of her youth and forgets the

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Speaker 1: covenant of her God, For her house sinks down to death,

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Speaker 1: and her tracks lead to the dead. None who go

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Speaker 1: to her return again, nor do they reach the paths

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Speaker 1: of life. So you will walk in the way of

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Speaker 1: good men and keep to the paths of the righteous.

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Speaker 1: For the upright will live in the land, and the

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Speaker 1: blameless will remain in it, but the wicked will be

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Speaker 1: cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be

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Speaker 1: uprooted from it. 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 it together today, and we

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Speaker 1: thank you for the reminders that you give to us

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Speaker 1: in your word, to be people who willingly receive and

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Speaker 1: eagerly apply your wisdom to our day to day lives. Lord,

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Speaker 1: We know that we need your help for this. We

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Speaker 1: know that we need your strength and your guidance, and

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Speaker 1: we know that ultimate wisdom only comes to us through

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

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Speaker 1: that we would be students of your word who take

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Speaker 1: the things that are found in your word and apply

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Speaker 1: them to our lives in the appropriate life circumstances, so

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Speaker 1: that you receive the glory, and so that we live

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Speaker 1: in a manner that brings you honor. We love you, Lord.

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Speaker 1: We're grateful for the fact that you've given us this counsel,

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Speaker 1: and we're grateful for the fact that we have the

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Speaker 1: privilege to walk with you day by day. We commit

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Speaker 1: this day to your care, and we pray this all

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Speaker 1: in Jesus' name. Amen.