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

  • Prov 2:10-11
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    10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

    11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;

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

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

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

    8 He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.

  • Prov 1:2-3
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    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:

  • 9 As for Ephraim, what has he to do with false gods any longer? I have given an answer and I will keep watch over him; I am like a branching fir-tree, from me comes your fruit.

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

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

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

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

  • 9 He whose ways are upright will go safely, but he whose ways are twisted will be made low.

  • 15 Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.

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

  • 28 In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

  • 5 Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.

  • 13 Righteousness will go before him, making a way for his footsteps.

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

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

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

  • 15 But decisions will again be made in righteousness; and they will be kept by all whose hearts are true.

  • 5 Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.

  • 13 Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

  • 21 He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.

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

  • 18 But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

  • 10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.

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    6 Because the Lord sees the way of the upright, but the end of the sinner is destruction.

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

  • 6 Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

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    2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

    3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

  • 8 Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.

  • 6 And he will make your righteousness be seen like the light, and your cause like the shining of the sun.

  • 21 And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.

  • 5 The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

  • 5 (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

  • 8 The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

  • 16 If you are wise, take note of this; give ear to the voice of my words.

  • 8 He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

  • 28 And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

  • 7 The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

  • 20 So that you might take it to its limit, guiding it to its house?

  • 14 So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

  • 30 The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.

  • 12 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.