Proverbs 16:20
He yt handleth a matter wysely, opteyneth good: & blessed is he, yt putteth his trust in ye LORDE.
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- Ps 2:12 : 12 Kysse the sonne, lest the LORDE be angrie, and so ye perish from the right waye. For his wrath shalbe kindled shortly: blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
- Prov 19:8 : 8 He that is wyse, loueth his owne soule: and who so hath vnderstondinge, shal prospere.
- Ps 34:8 : 8 O taist and se how frendly the LORDE is, blessed is the man yt trusteth in him.
- Prov 13:15 : 15 Good vnderstondinge geueth fauoure, but harde is the waye of the despysers.
- Prov 17:2 : 2 A discrete seruaut shal haue more rule then the sonnes yt haue no wysdome, and shal haue like heretage wt the brethren.
- Gen 41:38-40 : 38 And Pharao sayde vnto his seruauntes? How might we fynde soch a man, in whom is the sprete of God? 39 And sayde vnto Iosep: For so moch as God hath shewed ye all this, there is none of soch vnderstondinge & wysdome as thou. 40 Thou shalt be ouer my house, and acordinge vnto thy worde shall all my people obeye: onely in the kynges seate wyll I be more then thou.
- 1 Chr 5:20 : 20 helped them, and delyuered ye Agarites in to their handes, and all that was wt them: for they cried vnto God in ye batayll. And he herde them, because they put their trust in him.
- Ps 125:1 : 1 They that put their trust in ye LORDE, are eue as the mount Sion, which maye not be remoued, but stodeth fast for euer.
- Ps 146:5 : 5 Which made heauen and earth, ye see and all that therin is, which kepeth his promise for euer
- Prov 8:35 : 35 For who so fyndeth me, fyndeth life, and shal optayne fauoure of the LORDE.
- Prov 22:19-20 : 19 that thou mayest allwaye put yi trust in the LORDE. 20 Haue not I warned ye very oft with councell and lerninge?
- Prov 24:3-5 : 3 Thorow wy?dome an house shalbe buylded, & wt vnderstondinge it shalbe set vp. 4 Thorow discrecion shal ye chabers be fylled wt all costly & pleasaunt riches. 5 A wyse ma is stroge, yee a ma of vnderstodinge is better, the he yt is mightie of stregth.
- Isa 26:3-4 : 3 And thou, which art the doer and hast the matter in honde: shalt prouyde for peace, eue the peace yt me hope for in the. 4 Hope stil in the LORDE, for in the LORDE God is euerlastinge stregth.
- Isa 30:18 : 18 Yet stondeth the LORDE waitinge, that he maye haue mercy vpon you, and lifteth him self vp, that he maye receaue you to grace. For the LORDE God is rightuous. Happie are all thei that wate for him.
- Jer 17:7-8 : 7 O Blissed is the man, that putteth his trust in the LORDE, and whose hope the LORDE is himself. 8 For he shalbe as a tre, that is planted by the water syde: which spredeth out the rote vnto moystnesse, whom the heate can not harme, when it commeth, but his leaues are grene. And though there growe but litle frute because off drouth, yet is he not carefull, but he neuer leaueth of to bringe forth frute.
- Dan 1:19-21 : 19 and the kynge commoned with them. But amonge them all were founde none soch as Daniel, Ananias, Misael, and Asarias. Therfore stode they before the kynge, 20 which in all wisdome and matters off vnderstodinge, that he enquered off them, founde them ten tymes better, the all the soythsayers and charmers, that were in all his realme. 21 And Daniel abode still, vnto the first yeare of kynge Cyrus.
- Dan 3:28 : 28 Then spake Nabuchodonosor, and sayde: Blessed be the God of Sidrac, Misac & Abdenago: which hath sent his angel, ad defended his seruautes, that put their trust in him: yt haue altered the kynges commaundement, and ioperde their bodies thervpon: rather then they wolde serue or worshipe eny other god, excepte their owne God only.
- Dan 6:23 : 23 Then was the kynge exceadinge glad, ad commaunded to take Daniel out off the denne. So Daniel was brought out of the dene, and no maner of hurte was founde vpo him For he put his trust in his God.
- Matt 10:16 : 16 Beholde, I sende you forth as shepe amoge wolues. Be ye therfore wyse as serpentes, and innocent as doues.
- Eph 1:12-13 : 12 that we mighte be to the prayse of his glory, euen we that before beleued on Christ, 13 on who also ye beleued, after that ye herde the worde of trueth, namely ye Gospell of youre saluacion: wherin whan ye beleued, ye were sealed with the holy sprete of promes,
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