King James Version (KJV)
Proverbs 1:7
“The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Verse in context — Proverbs 1
5
A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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For they [shall be] an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.