Proverbs 1:14-24
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14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
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15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
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22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;