Proverbs 2:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is the Lord: so he will be the teacher of sinners in the way. 9 He will be an upright guide to the poor in spirit: he will make his way clear to them.
  • Ps 32:8 : 8 I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.
  • Ps 119:99 : 99 I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
  • Ps 119:105 : 105 <NUN> Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.
  • Ps 143:8-9 : 8 Let the story of your mercy come to me in the morning, for my hope is in you: give me knowledge of the way in which I am to go; for my soul is lifted up to you. 9 O Lord, take me out of the hands of my haters; my soul is waiting for you. 10 Give me teaching so that I may do your pleasure; for you are my God: let your good Spirit be my guide into the land of righteousness.
  • Prov 1:2-6 : 2 To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason: 3 To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour: 4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose: 5 (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:) 6 To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
  • Isa 35:8 : 8 And a highway will be there; its name will be, The Holy Way; the unclean and the sinner may not go over it, and those who go on it will not be turned out of the way by the foolish.
  • Isa 48:17 : 17 The Lord who takes up your cause, the Holy One of Israel, says, I am the Lord your God, who is teaching you for your profit, guiding you by the way in which you are to go.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.
  • Matt 7:13-14 : 13 Go in by the narrow door; for wide is the door and open is the way which goes to destruction, and great numbers go in by it. 14 For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.

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    10For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

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    5Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

    6For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

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  • Prov 1:2-3
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    2To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:

    3To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

  • Hos 14:9
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    7The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.

  • Prov 8:9
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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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    20I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

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    6In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

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    4So you will have grace and a good name in the eyes of God and men.

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    11I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

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    26Keep a watch on your behaviour; let all your ways be rightly ordered.

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    17The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.

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    17Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

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    23Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.

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