{"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/2","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T15:04:13.740Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Proverbs","bookSlug":"proverbs","chapter":2,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":1,"nextChapter":3,"totalChapters":31,"totalVerses":22},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Yes, if you cry after knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For the LORD gives wisdom: out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He keeps the paths of judgment, and preserves the way of his saints."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Then shall you understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yes, every good path."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you:"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"To deliver you from the way of the evil man, from the man that speaks fraudulent things;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the wicked;"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Whose ways are crooked, and they fraudulent in their paths:"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flatters with her words;"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"For her house inclines to death, and her paths to the dead."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"None that go to her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But the wicked shall be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it."}],"citation":{"inline":"Proverbs 2 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Proverbs 2](https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/2)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/proverbs/2 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}