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Proverbs 1:9
For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
Proverbs 1:9 · Bible in Basic English
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Proverbs 1:9 in other translations
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.
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In context
6 To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
10 My son, if sinners would take you out of the right way, do not go with them.
11 If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;
12 Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;
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