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20 Get all the advice and instruction you can,
    so you will be wise the rest of your life.

21 You can make many plans,
    but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.

22 Loyalty makes a person attractive.
    It is better to be poor than dishonest.

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20 Listen to advice and accept discipline,(A)
    and at the end you will be counted among the wise.(B)

21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
    but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.(C)

22 What a person desires is unfailing love[a];
    better to be poor than a liar.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:22 Or Greed is a person’s shame