16 “Honor your father(A) and your mother,(B) as the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live long(C) and that it may go well with you in the land the Lord your God is giving you.

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16 (A)‘Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God has commanded you, (B)that your days may be long, and that it may be well with (C)you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

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15 “See, (A)I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,

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16 For I command you today to love(A) the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live(B) and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

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16 in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess.

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13 Moreover, I will give you what you have not(A) asked for—both wealth and honor(B)—so that in your lifetime you will have no equal(C) among kings.

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13 And I have also (A)given you what you have not asked: both (B)riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days.

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14 And if you walk(A) in obedience to me and keep my decrees and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life.”(B)

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14 So (A)if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, (B)as your father David walked, then I will (C)lengthen[a] your days.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 3:14 prolong

Leave your simple ways and you will live;(A)
    walk in the way of insight.”(B)

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Forsake foolishness and live,
And go in the way of understanding.

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10 The fear of the Lord(A) is the beginning of wisdom,
    and knowledge of the Holy One(B) is understanding.(C)
11 For through wisdom[a] your days will be many,
    and years will be added to your life.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 9:11 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew me

10 “The(A) fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,
And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
11 (B)For by me your days will be multiplied,
And years of life will be added to you.

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