Verse 7

How blessed are your men, and how blessed are these servants who stand continually before you and hear your wisdom!

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  • Deut 33:9 : 9 He said of his father and mother, "I do not regard them;" he did not acknowledge his brothers or recognize his children, for they kept Your word and guarded Your covenant.
  • 1 Kgs 10:8 : 8 How happy your people must be! How blessed your officials, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
  • Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing I have asked from the Lord; this I will seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.
  • Ps 84:10-12 : 10 Behold our shield, O God, and look with favor upon Your anointed. 11 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. 12 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor. No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
  • Prov 3:3 : 3 Let lovingkindness and truth never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
  • Prov 3:14 : 14 For the profit from wisdom is better than the profit from silver, and her gain than fine gold.
  • Prov 8:34 : 34 Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the doorposts of my entrances.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense.
  • Prov 13:20 : 20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.
  • Luke 10:39-42 : 39 She had a sister named Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet and listened to His word. 40 But Martha was distracted by much serving. So she came to Him and asked, 'Lord, do You not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her, therefore, to help me.' 41 The Lord answered her, 'Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things.' 42 'But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.'
  • Luke 11:28 : 28 But He replied, 'Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and obey it.'