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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Proverbs 1 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/proverbs/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/proverbs/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Proverbs 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../psalms/150.htm" title="Psalm 150">◄</a> Proverbs 1 <a href="../proverbs/2.htm" title="Proverbs 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">How Proverbs Can Be Used</h3>1<a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.1.1!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> These are the proverbsof King Solomon of Israel,the son of David.2Proverbs will teach youwisdom and self-controland how to understandsayings with deep meanings.3You will learn what is rightand honest and fair.4From these, an ordinary personcan learn to be smart,and young people can gainknowledge and good sense.5If you are already wise,you will become even wiser.And if you are smart,you will learn to understand6proverbs and sayings,as well as words of wisdom,and all kinds of riddles.7<a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.1.7!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> Respect and obey the Lord!This is the beginningof knowledge.<a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.1.7!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> Only a fool rejects wisdomand good advice.<h3 class="s1">Warnings against Bad Friends</h3>8My child, obey the teachingsof your parents,9and wear their teachingsas you would a pretty hator a lovely necklace.10Don't be tempted by sinnersor listen 11when they say,“Come on! Let's gang upand kill somebody,just for the fun of it!12They're well and healthy now,but we'll finish them offonce and for all.13We'll take their valuablesand fill our homeswith stolen goods.14If you join our gang,you'll get your share.”15Don't follow anyone like thator do what they do.16They are in a big hurryto commit some crime,perhaps even murder.17They are like a birdthat sees the bait,but ignores the trap.<a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.1.17!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 18They gang up to murder someone,but they are the victims.19The wealth you get from crimerobs you of your life.<h3 class="s1">Wisdom Speaks</h3>20<a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.1.20!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> Wisdom<a href="#fn" id="link_Prov.1.20!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> shouts in the streetswherever crowds gather.21She shouts in the marketplacesand near the city gatesas she says to the people,22“How much longerwill you enjoybeing stupid fools?Won't you ever stop sneeringand laughing at knowledge?23Listen as I correct youand tell you what I think.24You completely ignored meand refused to listen;25you rejected my adviceand paid no attentionwhen I warned you.26“So when you are struckby some terrible disaster,27or when trouble and distresssurround you like a whirlwind,I will laugh and make fun.28You will ask for my help,but I won't listen;you will search,but you won't find me.29No, you would not learn,and you refusedto respect the Lord.30You rejected my adviceand paid no attentionwhen I warned you.31“Now you will eat the fruitof what you have done,until you are stuffed fullwith your own schemes.32Sin and self-satisfactionbring destruction and deathto stupid fools.33But if you listen to me,you will be safe and securewithout fear of disaster.”</div> </div> <a name="fn"></a> Footnotes: <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.7 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the beginning of knowledge: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “what knowledge is all about.”</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.17 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">They are … trap: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “Be like a bird that won't go for the bait, if it sees the trap.”</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">1.20 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Wisdom: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">In the book of Proverbs the word “wisdom” is sometimes used as though wisdom were a supernatural being who was with God at the time of creation.</char></note></div></div> <div align="center">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®) © 2006 American Bible Society. 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