Proverbs 2:11
Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,
BSB
ASV
Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
KJV
Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
SERMON 45:1 (542)
We read in sacred Scripture, dearly beloved, that holy counsel should keep those who are solicitous for their soul's salvation, as the divine Word puts it: "Holy counsel shall keep you." If holy counsel keeps a soul, that which is unholy not only fails to …
Discretion shall preserve thee - מזמה mezimmah. See on Pro 1:4 (note). Here the word is taken in a good sense, a good device. The man invents purposes of good; and all his schemes, plans, and devices, have for their object God’s glory and the good of man: he deviseth liberal things, and by liberal things he shall stand. Coverdale translates, “Then shall Counsel preserve thee.” A very good translation, much better than the present.
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
Ephesians 5:15Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk, not as unwise but as wise,
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Act wisely toward outsiders, redeeming the time.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
Nevertheless, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm…
The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools deceives them.
Through
Psalms 25:21May integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for You.
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The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
In my integrity You uphold me and set me in Your presence forever.
Through
Proverbs 4:6Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.
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and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.