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Proverbs 1:5-7
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5 Wise people should also listen carefully, so that they learn something new. And people with clever minds can learn to live in a good way.

6 People will learn to understand what proverbs and picture stories mean. They will understand the teaching and clever messages of wise people.

Good teaching for life

7 If you want to know how to live in a good way, you must first learn to respect the Lord with fear.[a] Fools refuse to listen to wise teaching.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:7 When we write Lord like this, it is a special name for God. Sometimes people write it as ‘Yahweh’, or as ‘Jehovah’. It is his own name that he told Moses. See Exodus 3:14. It means ‘I am who I am’. This shows that God has always been there and he always will be there.
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