Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 1
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CHAP. I.

2 To whom God sheweth himselfe, 4 and Wisedome herselfe. 6 An euill speaker can not lie hid. 12 We procure our owne destruction: 13 for God created not death.

¹ Loue righteousnesse, yee that be iudges of the earth: thinke of the Lord with a good (heart) and in simplicitie of heart seeke him.¹

² For hee will bee found of them that tempt him not: and sheweth himselfe vnto such as doe not distrust him.²

³ For froward thoughts separate from God: and his power when it is tryed, reprooueth the vnwise.³

⁴ For into a malitious soule wisedome shall not enter: nor dwell in the body that is subiect vnto sinne.

⁵ For the holy spirit of discipline will flie deceit, & remoue from thoughts that are without vnderstanding: and will not abide when vnrighteousnesse commeth in.⁵

⁶ For wisedome is a louing spirit: and will not acquite a blasphemour of his words: for God is witnesse of his reines, and a true beholder of his heart, and a hearer of his tongue.⁶

⁷ For the spirit of the Lord filleth the world: and that which containeth all things hath knowledge of the voice.⁷

⁸ Therefore he that speaketh vnrighteous things, cannot be hid: neither shal vengeance, when it punisheth. passe by him.

⁹ For inquisition shall be made into the counsels of the vngodly: and the sound of his words, shall come vnto the Lord, for the manifestation of his wicked deedes.⁹

¹⁰ For the eare of iealousie heareth al things: and the noise of murmurings is not hid.

¹¹ Therefore beware of murmuring, which is vnprofitable, and refraine your tongue from backbiting: for there is no word so secret that shall goe for nought: and the mouth that belieth, slayeth the soule.¹¹

¹² Seeke not death in the errour of your life: and pull not vpon your selues destruction, with the workes of your hands.¹²

¹³ For God made not death: neither hath he pleasure in the destruction of the liuing.

¹⁴ For he created all things, that they might haue their being: and the generations of the world were healthfull: and there is no poyson of destruction in them: nor the kingdome of death vpon the earth.

¹⁵ For righteousnesse is immortall.

¹⁶ But vngodly men with their workes, and words called it to them: for when they thought to haue it their friend, they consumed to nought, and made a couenant with it, because they are worthy to take part with it.

Wisdom of Solomon Chapter 1 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):

¹ 1.King.3. 3 esay. 56.1. 13.4.
² Deut.4. 29.2. chro.
³ Or, maketh manifest.
⁵ Iere.4.22. , Or, is rebuked, or sheweth it selfe.
⁶ Gal. 5. 22. , Or, lippes.
⁷ Or, vpholdeth.
⁹ Or, reprouing.
¹¹ Or, slandereth.
¹² Deut.4. 23.

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