Lyrics

[Verse 1]
My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you,
turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding—
indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,
and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
[Verse 2]
then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He holds success in store for the upright; He is a shield to those whose walk is blameless.
For He guards the course of the just and protects the way of His faithful ones.
[Chorus]
Jesus said, whoever confesses Me before men, I will also confess before My Father in heaven.
Take up your cross and follow Me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it,
and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
[Verse 3]
Then you will understand what is right and just and fair—every good path.
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.
[Verse 4]
It will deliver you from the way of evil, from people who speak perversely,
who forsake the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness,
who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil,
whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways.
[Chorus]
Jesus said, whoever confesses Me before men, I will also confess before My Father in heaven.
Take up your cross and follow Me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it,
and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.
[Verse 5]
It will deliver you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words,
who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God.
Surely her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead.
None who go to her return or attain the paths of life.
[Bridge]
Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
Rather fear Him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.
Even the hairs of your head are numbered;
do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.
[Verse 6]
Thus you will walk in the ways of the good and keep to the paths of the righteous.
For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it;
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it.
[Final Chorus]
Jesus said, whoever confesses Me before men, I will also confess before My Father in heaven.
Take up your cross and follow Me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it,
and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.