{"id":10469,"date":"2022-01-30T12:53:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=10469"},"modified":"2022-01-30T12:53:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T17:53:43","slug":"proverbs-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=10469","title":{"rendered":"Proverbs 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.<\/li>\n<li>For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.<\/li>\n<li>For I was my father&#8217;s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.<\/li>\n<li>He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words:  keep my commandments, and live.<\/li>\n<li>Get wisdom, get understanding:  forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.<\/li>\n<li>Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee:  love her, and she shall keep thee.<\/li>\n<li>Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:  and with all thy getting get understanding.<\/li>\n<li>Exalt her, and she shall promote thee:  she shall bring thee to hounour, when thou dost embrace her.<\/li>\n<li>She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace:  a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.<\/li>\n<li>Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.<\/li>\n<li>I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.<\/li>\n<li>When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straightened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.<\/li>\n<li>Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go:  keep her; for she is thy life.<\/li>\n<li>Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.<\/li>\n<li>Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.<\/li>\n<li>For they sleep not, except they have done mischief;  and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.<\/li>\n<li>For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.<\/li>\n<li>But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.<\/li>\n<li>The way of the wicked is as darkness:  they know not at what they stumble.<\/li>\n<li>My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear to my sayings,<\/li>\n<li>Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.<\/li>\n<li>For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.<\/li>\n<li>Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.<\/li>\n<li>Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.<\/li>\n<li>Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.<\/li>\n<li>Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.<\/li>\n<li>Turn no to the right hand nor to the left:  remove thy foot from evil.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. For I was my father&#8217;s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/?page_id=10469\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proverbs 4&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10469","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10470,"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10469\/revisions\/10470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bloggingsam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}