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Proverbs 3:26 Explained in Context

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Verse 26. For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

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Role in This Section

This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken”.

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  • Proverbs 3:21–26

The line at Proverbs 3:26 contributes the claim, image, or instruction “For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken”. Its place in Proverbs 3:21–26 matters because the edited collection joins it to life, death, safety, and the long direction of choices, family teaching, responsibility, and mutual care, wisdom, folly, teachability, and moral perception.

Why It Needs Context

This verse contributes the claim, image, or instruction “For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken”. Its force depends on the complete instruction, list, comparison, or cluster in Proverbs 3:21–26; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.

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Read Proverbs 3:21–26 — Keep sound wisdom and walk securely
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Where care is needed

The verse belongs to a larger speech, instruction, prayer, number saying, or poem; its voice and complete literary movement control how strongly an isolated line may be stated.

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Biblical text

King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006

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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.

Supports: Exact displayed KJV words, canonical order, paragraph flags, supplied-word markup, and complete unit coverage.

Exact location: Proverbs 3:21–26, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived corpus

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hebrew text and morphology

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Proverbs

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Open Scriptures, release 2.2

Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology used only for the exact unit's lexical, grammatical, parallel, superscription, number-saying, and acrostic questions.

Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Prov.xml, OSIS 3:21-3:26

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