Proverbs 1:29
For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
BSB
ASV
For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah,
KJV
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
Others think that wisdom, as the divine attribute specially employed in acts of counsel and admonition, is here personified, and represents God. In either case the address is a most solemn and divine admonition, whose matter and spirit are eminently evangelical and impressive (see on Pr 8:1).
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Proverbs 6:23For this commandment is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way to life,
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Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day…
The precepts of the LORD are right, bringing joy to the heart; the commandments of the LORD are radiant, giving light to the eyes.
He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
Through
Hebrews 11:25He chose to suffer oppression with God’s people rather than to experience the fleeting enjoyment of sin.
leads to
For better is one day in Your courts than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
Join me in suffering, like a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Be careful not to turn to iniquity, for this you have preferred to affliction.
