{"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/kjv/proverbs/1","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-02T17:53:21.517Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","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 subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"A wise <i>man</i> will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto 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 <i>is</i> the beginning of knowledge: <i>but</i> fools despise wisdom and instruction."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"For they <i>shall be</i> an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily 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 thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy 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 <i>own</i> blood; they lurk privily for their <i>own</i> lives."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"So <i>are</i> the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; <i>which</i> taketh away the life of the owners thereof."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, <i>saying</i>,"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"How long, ye simple ones, will ye 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 unto you, I will make known my words unto you."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"But ye have set at nought 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 cometh;"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Then shall they call upon 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 whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 1 (KJV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 1](https://primebible.com/kjv/proverbs/1)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/proverbs/1 (accessed 2026-06-02)."}}