Proverbs 23:12

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Apply your heart to discipline, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:2-6 : 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding, 3 if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, 4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, 5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.
  • Prov 5:1-2 : 1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my understanding. 2 So you may preserve discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
  • Prov 22:17 : 17 Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise; apply your heart to my knowledge.
  • Prov 23:19 : 19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right path.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain.
  • Matt 13:52 : 52 Then he said to them, "For this reason, every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house who brings out of his storeroom both new treasures and old ones."
  • Jas 1:21-25 : 21 Therefore, rid yourselves of all moral filth and the excess of evil, and humbly accept the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what he looks like. 25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres—not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—this person will be blessed in what he does.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 22:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise; apply your heart to my knowledge.

    18For it is pleasant when you keep them within you; they will be ready on your lips all together.

  • Prov 2:1-3
    3 verses
    84%

    1My son, if you accept my words and treasure my commands with you,

    2making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding,

    3if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

  • Prov 5:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; listen carefully to my understanding.

    2So you may preserve discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.

  • Prov 23:19
    78%

    19Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right path.

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

    20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

    21Do not let them depart from your sight; keep them in the midst of your heart.

  • Prov 18:15
    78%

    15The heart of the understanding one gains knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

  • Prov 19:27
    77%

    27Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 4:1
    76%

    1Listen, my sons, to the instruction of a father; pay attention so you may gain understanding.

  • Prov 16:22-23
    2 verses
    76%

    22Understanding is a fountain of life to the one who has it, but the discipline of fools is folly.

    23The heart of the wise makes his mouth prudent, and his lips promote learning.

  • Prov 23:13
    76%

    13Do not withhold discipline from a child; though you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

  • Prov 8:32-33
    2 verses
    75%

    32Now then, my children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

    33Listen to instruction and be wise; do not neglect it.

  • Prov 1:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

    8Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do not forsake your mother's teaching,

  • Prov 15:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31The ear that listens to life-giving correction will dwell among the wise.

    32Those who ignore discipline despise themselves, but those who heed correction gain understanding.

  • Prov 23:26
    74%

    26My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

  • Job 34:2
    74%

    2Listen to my words, you wise ones; and to those with understanding, give ear to me.

  • Job 22:22
    74%

    22Accept instruction from His mouth and place His words in your heart.

  • Prov 8:10
    74%

    10Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

  • Prov 2:10
    74%

    10For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

  • Prov 12:1
    74%

    1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but one who hates correction is senseless.

  • Prov 7:24
    74%

    24Now then, my sons, listen to me and pay attention to the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 1:5
    74%

    5Let the wise hear and increase their learning, and the one who understands gain guidance,

  • Job 34:16
    73%

    16If you have understanding, listen to this; pay attention to the sound of my words.

  • Prov 1:23
    73%

    23If you turn at my correction, behold, I will pour out my Spirit to you; I will make my words known to you.

  • Prov 19:20
    73%

    20Listen to advice and accept discipline, so that you may become wise in the future.

  • Prov 1:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2To know wisdom and discipline, to understand words of insight,

    3To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity,

  • Prov 12:23
    73%

    23A prudent person conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.

  • Prov 23:15
    73%

    15My son, if your heart becomes wise, my heart will also rejoice.

  • Job 36:10
    73%

    10He opens their ears to instruction and tells them to turn away from iniquity.

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

    10Listen, my son, and accept my words, and the years of your life will be many.

  • Prov 3:21
    72%

    21My son, do not let them depart from your sight; guard sound wisdom and discretion.

  • Prov 5:7
    72%

    7Now, my children, listen to me, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 3:1
    72%

    1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments.

  • Prov 8:5
    72%

    5Understand prudence, you simple ones; and you fools, gain a discerning heart.

  • Prov 22:15
    72%

    15Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.

  • Job 8:10
    71%

    10Will they not instruct you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?

  • Prov 13:1
    71%

    1A wise son listens to his father's instruction, but a mocker does not heed rebuke.

  • Prov 15:14
    71%

    14The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

  • Prov 23:22
    71%

    22Listen to your father, who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Prov 15:7
    71%

    7The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the hearts of fools are not upright.