Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding giveth favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard.
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- Prov 3:4 : 4 So shalt thou find favor and good understanding In the sight of God and man.
- Jer 2:19 : 19 Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
- Luke 2:52 : 52 And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
- Acts 7:10 : 10 and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
- Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.
- Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
- Prov 14:35 : 35 The king's favor is toward a servant that dealeth wisely; But his wrath will be [against] him that causeth shame.
- Prov 15:10 : 10 There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way; [And] he that hateth reproof shall die.
- 1 Sam 18:14-16 : 14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Jehovah was with him. 15 And when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him. 16 But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
- Ps 95:9-9 : 9 When your fathers tempted me, Proved me, and saw my work. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with [that] generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways: 11 Wherefore I sware in my wrath, That they should not enter into my rest.
- Ps 111:10 : 10 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all they that do [his commandments] : His praise endureth for ever.
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