Proverbs 2:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;

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  • Prov 30:5 : 5 Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.
  • Ps 84:11 : 11 The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.
  • Ps 144:2 : 2 He is my strength, and my Rock; my high tower, and my saviour; my keeper and my hope: he gives me authority over my people.
  • Prov 14:8 : 8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.
  • Prov 28:18 : 18 He whose ways are upright will be safe, but sudden will be the fall of him whose ways are twisted.
  • 1 Cor 1:19 : 19 As it says in the holy Writings, I will put an end to the wisdom of the wise, and will put on one side the designs of those who have knowledge.
  • Col 2:3 : 3 In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.
  • Jas 3:15-17 : 15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One. 16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing. 17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
  • 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: 17 So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
  • 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:
  • 1 Cor 2:6-7 : 6 But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing: 7 But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;
  • 1 Cor 3:18-19 : 18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:
  • Prov 8:14 : 14 Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.
  • 1 Cor 1:24 : 24 But to those of God's selection, Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power and the wisdom of God.
  • Job 28:8 : 8 The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.

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    31As for God, his way is all good: the word of the Lord is tested; he is a safe cover for all those who put their faith in him.

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    10God, who is the saviour of the upright in heart, is my breastplate.

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    11The Lord God is our sun and our strength: the Lord will give grace and glory: he will not keep back any good thing from those whose ways are upright.

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    9They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

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    2He who goes on his way in righteousness has before him the fear of the Lord; but he whose ways are twisted gives him no honour.

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    12For you, Lord, will send a blessing on the upright man; your grace will be round him, and you will be his strength.

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    16The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

    17For the arms of the evil-doers will be broken: but the Lord is the support of the good.

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    20So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

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    5Every word of God is tested: he is a breastplate to those who put their faith in him.

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    33Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

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    14Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.

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    20He who gives attention to the law of right will get good; and whoever puts his faith in the Lord is happy.

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    6The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.