Proverbs 8
8*Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
2*She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
3*She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
4*Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
5*O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
6*Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
7*For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8*All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
9*They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
10*Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11*For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
12*I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
13*The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
14*Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
15*By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
16*By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
17*I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
18*Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
19*My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; and my revenue than choice silver.
20*I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
21*That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.
22*The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
23*I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.
24*When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.
25*Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:
26*While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world.
27*When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:
28*When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep:
29*When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:
30*Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
31*Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.
32*Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
33*Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
34*Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
35*For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.
36*But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
James 3:13-18
13*Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14*But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15*This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
16*For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
17*But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18*And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Revelation 17
17*And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2*With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3*So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4*And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5*And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
6*And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7*And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8*The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9*And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
10*And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.
11*And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12*And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13*These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14*These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15*And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
16*And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17*For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18*And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.