{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T15:17:32.474Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":1,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":null,"nextChapter":2,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":33},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But you have set at nothing all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes on you."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Then shall they call on me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 1 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 1](https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/1 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}