Proverbs 8:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.

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  • John 14:21 : 21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
  • 1 Sam 2:30 : 30 For this reason the Lord God of Israel has said, Truly I did say that your family and your father's people would have their place before me for ever: but now the Lord says, Let it not be so; I will give honour to those by whom I am honoured, and those who have no respect for me will be of small value in my eyes.
  • Ps 91:14 : 14 Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.
  • John 14:23 : 23 Jesus said to him in answer, If anyone has love for me, he will keep my words: and he will be dear to my Father; and we will come to him and make our living-place with him.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.
  • 1 John 4:19 : 19 We have the power of loving, because he first had love for us.
  • Isa 55:6 : 6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 Make a request, and it will be answered; what you are searching for you will get; give the sign, and the door will be open to you: 8 Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.
  • John 16:27 : 27 For the Father himself gives his love to you, because you have given your love to me and have had faith that I came from God.
  • Isa 45:19 : 19 I have not given my word in secret, in a place in the underworld; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, Go into a waste land to make request of me: I the Lord say what is true, my word is righteousness.
  • Mark 10:14 : 14 And when Jesus saw it, he was angry, and said to them, Let the little children come to me, and do not keep them away; for of such is the kingdom of God.
  • Prov 1:28 : 28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
  • Eccl 12:1 : 1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;

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  • Prov 8:34-36
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    34 Happy is the man who gives ear to me, watching at my doors day by day, keeping his place by the pillars of my house.

    35 For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

    36 But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.

  • Prov 8:18
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    18 Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness.

  • Prov 8:20-22
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    20 I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

    21 So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.

    22 The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.

  • Prov 8:12-16
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    12 I, wisdom, have made wise behaviour my near relation; I am seen to be the special friend of wise purposes.

    13 The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

    14 Wise design and good sense are mine; reason and strength are mine.

    15 Through me kings have their power, and rulers give right decisions.

    16 Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.

  • Prov 1:28
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    28 Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

  • Jer 29:12-13
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    12 And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.

    13 And you will be searching for me and I will be there, when you have gone after me with all your heart.

  • Prov 7:15
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    15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.

  • Prov 2:4-5
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    4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

    5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

  • Prov 19:8
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    8 He who gets wisdom has love for his soul: he who keeps good sense will get what is truly good.

  • Prov 8:31-32
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    31 Playing in his earth; and my delight was with the sons of men.

    32 Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.

  • Ps 119:10
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    10 I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

  • Song 3:1-3
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    1 By night on my bed I was looking for him who is the love of my soul: I was looking for him, but I did not see him.

    2 I will get up now and go about the town, in the streets and in the wide ways I will go after him who is the love of my soul: I went after him, but I did not see him.

    3 The watchmen who go about the town came by me; to them I said, Have you seen him who is my heart's desire?

  • Ps 119:2
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    2 Happy are they who keep his unchanging word, searching after him with all their heart.

  • Prov 3:13
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    13 Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

  • Prov 21:21
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    21 He who goes after righteousness and mercy will get life, righteousness, and honour.

  • Ps 119:47
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    47 And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.

  • John 14:21
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    21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.

  • Ps 27:8
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    8 When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

  • Ps 119:127
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    127 For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold.

  • Isa 65:1
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    1 I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.

  • Deut 4:29
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    29 But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.

  • Prov 11:27
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    27 He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.

  • Isa 58:2
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    2 Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

  • Eccl 7:24-25
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    24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?

    25 I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.

  • Prov 8:9
    68%

    9 They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

  • 1 Chr 28:9
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    9 And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.

  • Isa 55:6
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    6 Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

  • Prov 4:6
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    6 Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

  • Ps 18:1
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    1 <To the chief music-maker. Of the servant of the Lord, of David, who said the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord made him free from the hand of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul; and he said,> I will give you my love, O Lord, my strength.

  • Prov 3:18
    67%

    18 She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • Jer 17:10
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    10 I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.

  • Prov 18:22
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    22 Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

  • Isa 26:9
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    9 In the night the desire of my soul has been for you; early will my spirit be searching for you; for when your punishments come on the earth, the people of the world will get the knowledge of righteousness.

  • Ps 119:159
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    159 See how great is my love for your orders: give me life, O Lord, in keeping with your mercy.

  • Prov 22:1
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    1 A good name is more to be desired than great wealth, and to be respected is better than silver and gold.