Proverbs 1:8-19
The Enticement of Sin

8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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9 For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

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10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.

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11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

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12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

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13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

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14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:

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15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

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16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

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17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.

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18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.

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19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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