The Bible, Old and New Testaments, King James Version

by Mormons

  149:5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

  149:6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;

  149:7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;

  149:8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

  149:9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.

  150:1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

  150:2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.

  150:3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

  150:4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

  150:5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

  150:6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.

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  The Proverbs

  1:1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; 1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

  1:5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: 1:6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

  1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

  1:8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

  1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

  1:11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 1:12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 1:13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 1:14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

  1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

  1:18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

  1:19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

  1:20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: 1:21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, 1:22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.

  1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 1:26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 1:27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.

  1:28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 1:29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 1:30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.

  1:31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

  1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

  1:33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

  2:1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 2:3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 2:4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 2:5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

  2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

  2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

  2:8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

  2:9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.

  2:10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee: 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaketh froward things; 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness; 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked; 2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words; 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

  2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.

  2:19 None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

  2:20 That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  2:21 For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.

  2:22 But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.

  3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: 3:2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

  3:3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: 3:4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.

  3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

  3:7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

  3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

  3:9 Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: 3:10 So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.

  3:11 My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither be weary of his correction: 3:12 For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

  3:13 Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

  3:14 For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.

  3:15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.

  3:16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.

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

  3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

  3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.

  3:20 By his knowledge the depths are broken up, and the clouds drop down the dew.

  3:21 My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion: 3:22 So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

  3:23 Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

  3:24 When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet.

  3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, whe
n it cometh.

  3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

  3:27 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

  3:28 Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

  3:29 Devise not evil against thy neighbour, seeing he dwelleth securely by thee.

  3:30 Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.

  3:31 Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

  3:32 For the froward is abomination to the LORD: but his secret is with the righteous.

  3:33 The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

  3:34 Surely he scorneth the scorners: but he giveth grace unto the lowly.

  3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.

  4:1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

  4:2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

  4:3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

  4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

  4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

  4:6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.

  4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

  4:8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

  4:9 She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

  4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

  4:11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

  4:12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

  4:13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

  4:14 Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.

  4:15 Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

  4:17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

  4:18 But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

  4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.

  4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

  4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

  4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

  4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

  4:24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

  4:25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.

  4:26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.

  4:27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.

  5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: 5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

  5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: 5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

  5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

  5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

  5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

  5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: 5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; 5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, 5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; 5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! 5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

  5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

  5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

  5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

  5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

  5:19 Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

  5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

  5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

  5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

  6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken thy hand with a stranger, 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

  6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy friend.

  6:4 Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

  6:5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

  6:6 Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: 6:7 Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, 6:8 Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.

  6:9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 6:10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 6:11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.

  6:12 A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

  6:13 He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.

  6:15 Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy.

  6:16 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

  6:20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 6:21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.

  6:22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.

  6:23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

  6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

  6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.

  6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 6:28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? 6:29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

  6:30 Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy h
is soul when he is hungry; 6:31 But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

  6:32 But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.

  6:33 A wound and dishonour shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.

  6:34 For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

  6:35 He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

  7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

  7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

  7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

  7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

  7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

  7:11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 7:12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, 7:14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

  7:15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

  7:16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

  7:17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

  7:18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

  7:19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 7:20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

  7:21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.