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Proverbs 1:7 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 1 · verse 7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.Proverbs 1:7 · King James Version
Proverbs 1:7 in context
5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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Key words (Strong's)
- beginningrêʼshîyththe first, in place, time, order or rankH7225 →
- knowledgedaʻathknowledgeH1847 →
- despisebûwzto disrespectH936 →
- wisdomchokmâhwisdomH2451 →
- foolsʼĕvîylsillyH191 →
- fearyirʼâhfearH3374 →
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Solomon, having undertaken to teach a young man knowledge and discretion, here lays down two general rules to be observed in order thereunto, and those are, to fear God and honour his parents, which two fundamental laws of morality Pythagoras begins his golden verses with, but the former of them in a wretchedly…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 7-9