Proverbs 2:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

Then you will understand righteousness and judgment and equity; yes, every good path.

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  • Ps 25:8-9 : 8 Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He will teach sinners in the way. 9 The meek He will guide in judgment, and the meek He will teach His way.
  • Ps 32:8 : 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.
  • Ps 119:99 : 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.
  • Ps 119:105 : 105 NUN. Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
  • Ps 143:8-9 : 8 Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, for I trust in You: cause me to know the way I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You. 9 Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies: I flee to You to hide me. 10 Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God: Your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
  • Prov 1:2-6 : 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 4 To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. 5 A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel; 6 To understand a proverb and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their riddles.
  • Isa 35:8 : 8 And a highway shall be there, and a road, and it shall be called The Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it, but it shall be for others: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
  • Isa 48:17 : 17 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD your God who teaches you to profit, who leads you by the way you should go.
  • Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus says the LORD, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk therein, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.
  • Matt 7:13-14 : 13 Enter by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who go in by it. 14 Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and few are those who find it.
  • John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no one comes to the Father except through me.

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  • Prov 2:5-8
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    8He guards the paths of justice and preserves the way of His saints.

  • Prov 1:2-3
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    2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

    3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;

  • Hos 14:9
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    9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

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    7The way of the just is uprightness; You, most upright, weigh the path of the just.

  • Prov 8:9
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    9They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.

  • Prov 8:20
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    20I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment,

  • Prov 3:6
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    6In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths.

  • Prov 10:9
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    9He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

  • Prov 13:15
    75%

    15Good understanding gives favor, but the way of transgressors is hard.

  • Prov 3:4
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    4So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

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    5Evil people do not understand judgment, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.

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    13Righteousness shall go before Him, and shall set us in the way of His steps.

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    11I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.

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    26Ponder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.

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    17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; he who keeps his way preserves his soul.

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    15But judgment shall return to righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

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  • Prov 3:13
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    13Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gains understanding.

  • Prov 21:21
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  • Prov 3:17
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    17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

  • Prov 4:18
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    18But the path of the just is like the shining light, that shines more and more unto the perfect day.

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    10All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.

  • Ps 1:6
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    23Then you will walk in your way safely, and your foot will not stumble.

  • Prov 13:6
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  • Prov 2:2-3
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    20That you may take it to its boundary, and that you may discern the paths to its home?

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    14So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.

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    12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.