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    Proverbs 1
    •   The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
    •   To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
    •   To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
    •   To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
    •   A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
    •   To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
    •   The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
    •   My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
    •   For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
    • 10   My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
    • 11   If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
    • 12   Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
    • 13   We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
    • 14   Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
    • 15   My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
    • 16   For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
    • 17   Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
    • 18   And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
    • 19   So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
    • 20   Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
    • 21   She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
    • 22   How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
    • 23   Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
    • 24   Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
    • 25   But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
    • 26   I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
    • 27   When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
    • 28   Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
    • 29   For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
    • 30   They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
    • 31   Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
    • 32   For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
    • 33   But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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  • King James Version (kjv - 3.1)

    2023-07-19

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    This is the King James Version of the Holy Bible (also known as the Authorized Version) with embedded Strong's Numbers. The rights to the base text are held by the Crown of England.
    The Strong's numbers in the OT were obtained from The Bible Foundation: http://www.bf.org. The NT Strong's data was obtained from The KJV2003 Project at CrossWire: http://www.crosswire.org. These mechanisms provide a useful means for looking up the exact original language word in a lexicon that is keyed to Strong's numbers.

    Special thanks to the volunteers at Bible Foundation for keying the Hebrew/English data and of Project KJV2003 for working toward the completion of synchronizing the English phrases to the Stephanas Textus Receptus, and to Dr. Maurice Robinson for providing the base Greek text with Strong's and Morphology.
    We are also appreciative of formatting markup that was provided by Michael Paul Johnson at http://www.ebible.org. Their time and generosity to contribute such for the free use of the Body of Christ is a great blessing and this derivitive work could not have been possible without these efforts of so many individuals.
    Version 3.1 incorporates a more recent set of TR data from Dr. Maurice Robinson than was used in all the earlier versions. The TR data was obtained in 2016 from the Greek New Testament sources website
    https://sites.google.com/a/wmail.fi/greeknt/home/greeknt
    This was integrated into the OSIS source files of an intermediate version 2.9a hosted at
    https://www.crosswire.org/~dmsmith/kjv2011/kjv2.9a/
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    • LCSH: Bible.English
    • Distribution Abbreviation: kjv

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    history_1.1
    Fixed .conf file GlobalOptionFilters
    history_1.2
    Added Feature StrongsNumbers to configuration
    history_1.3
    Added Morph option
    history_1.4
    Fixed Psalm Titles to use correct GBF tags HT and Ht
    history_2.0
    Changed New Testament to use a snapshot of the KJV2003 Project
    history_2.1
    Changed Old Testament to use OSIS tags, removing the last of the GBF markup. Also updated to 20030624 snapshot of KJV2003. Compressed.
    history_2.2
    Updated to 20040121 snapshot of KJV2003.
    history_2.3
    Fixed bugs.
    history_2.4
    Fixed bugs.
    history_2.5
    Fixed bugs.
    history_2.6
    Fixed bugs. Added Greek from TR.
    history_2.6.1
    Added GlobalOptionFilter for OSISLemma
    history_2.7
    Fixed bugs preventing the display of some Strong's Numbers.
    history_2.8
    (2015-12-20) Moved Ps 119 acrostic titles before verse number. Added Feature for no paragraphs.
    history_2.9
    (2016-01-21) Added markup to notes. Improved markup of Selah.
    history_2.10.2
    (2021-04-04) Fixed errant article Strong's markup in Rom.3.26
    history_2.11
    (2023-06-27) Updated the TR data in 5888 verses. Correction of Ps.2.4: the Lord → the Lord.\ MOD-448: many errors with strong as G3688, should be G3588.\ Five locations where small caps is inappropriate, Lord change for LORD Exodus 28:36; 39:30, Deuteronomy 28:58, Jeremiah 23:6, Zechariah 14:20.\ MOD-411: Psalm 80, Shoshannim–eduth → Shoshannim–Eduth.\ MOD-408: italics in Nahum 1:3, (hath) → (hath).\ MOD-358: Missing red letter markup in Luke 11:2, red marker moved before 'When'.\ MOD-413 multiple text issues (italics, spelling, ...).\ MOD-441: Missing strong number for the seventh word.\ MOD-419: Spurious "or" removed; Exodus 17:15 "Jehovah–nissi" → "JEHOVAH–nissi".\ 1 John 2:23 has "(but)" whereas Blayney has "[but]"; Correction of some morph errors in I Corinthians 3:13 A-GMS → A-GSM; I Corinthians 11:6 and 14:24 N-NAM → N-NSM; Hb 9.13, 10.4: N-GMP → N-GPM; I Cor 7:37 2 change for 12; 1Chr.27.12 Abi-ezer → abiezer; Exod.17.15: Jehovah → JEHOVAH.\ Correction of Jer.23.6: L → LORD; MOD-376: Mk 1:10.19 have a wrong strong number: 1492. The correct number is 3708. Correction of rdg attribute type="alternative" (2.9) to "alternate". Misplaced in Numbers 16:13. Duplicated entry in Eph. 3.20, spurious comma in Gn 1.2 and 2.9. Ezra 5:3,6; 6.6,13: morph="strongMorph:TH8674 changed for lemma="strong:H08674.
    history_3.1
    (2023-07-19) Conf version updated to 3.1 to match KJVA version.

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