Proverbs 1:7

Coverdale Bible (1535)

The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome. But fooles despyse wysdome and nurtoure.

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  • Job 28:28 : 28 And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the LORDE, is wy?dome: & to forsake euell, is vnderstondinge.
  • Prov 9:10 : 10 The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome, & the knowlege of holy thinges is vnderstondinge.
  • Eccl 12:13 : 13 Lat vs heare the conclucion of all thinges: Feare God, and kepe his comaundementes, for that toucheth all men:
  • Prov 15:33 : 33 The feare of ye LORDE is ye right scyece of wy?dome, and lowlynes goeth before honor.
  • Prov 18:2 : 2 A foole hath no delyte in vnderstodinge, but only in those thinges wherin his herte reioyseth.
  • Ps 111:10-112:1 : 10 The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wy?dome, a good vnderstondinge haue all they that do therafter: the prayse of it endureth for euer. 1 Blessed is the man yt feareth the LORDE, & hath greate delite in his commaundementes.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 O ye childre, how loge wil ye loue childyshnesse? how longe wil ye scorners delyte in scornynge, & ye vnwyse be enemies vnto knowlege?
  • Prov 1:29-30 : 29 And yt because they hated knowlege, and receaued not ye feare of ye LORDE, 30 but abhorred my councell, and despysed my correccion.
  • Prov 5:12-13 : 12 and then saye: Alas, why hated I nurtoure? why dyd my hert despyse correccion? 13 Wherfore was not I obedient vnto the voyce of my teachers, & herkened not vnto them that infourmed me?
  • Prov 15:5 : 5 A foole despyseth his fathers correccion, but he yt taketh hede whan he is reproued, shal haue ye more vnderstodinge.
  • John 3:18-21 : 18 He that beleueth on him, shal not be codemned. But he that beleueth not, is codemned allready: because he beleueth not on the name of the onely sonne of God. 19 But this is ye codempnacion, that the light is come in to the worlde, and men loued the darknesse more the ye light: for their workes were euell. 20 Whosoeuer doth euell, hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, that his dedes shulde not be reproued. 21 But he that doth the trueth, commeth to the light, that his workes maye be knowne: for they are done in God.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And as they regarded not to knowe God, euen so God gaue the vp in to a lewde mynde, to do those thinges which were not comly,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 9:9-10
    2 verses
    87%

    9 Geue a discrete man but an occasion, & he wilbe the wyser: teach a rightuous man, and he wil increase.

    10 The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wysdome, & the knowlege of holy thinges is vnderstondinge.

  • Prov 1:8
    81%

    8 My sonne, heare thy fathers doctryne, and forsake not the lawe of yi mother:

  • Ps 111:10
    80%

    10 The feare of the LORDE is the begynnynge of wy?dome, a good vnderstondinge haue all they that do therafter: the prayse of it endureth for euer.

  • Prov 1:2-6
    5 verses
    80%

    2 to lerne wy?dome nurtoure, vnderstondinge, prudence,

    3 rightuousnesse, iudgment and equite.

    4 That the very babes might haue wyt, and that yonge men might haue knowlege and vnderstondinge.

    5 By hearinge, the wyse ma shal come by more wysdome: and by experience,

    6 he shal be more apte to vnderstonde a parable, and the interpretacion therof: the wordes of the wyse, and the darcke speaches of the same.

  • Prov 2:5-6
    2 verses
    80%

    5 The shalt thou vnderstonde ye feare of the LORDE, and fynde ye knowlege of God.

    6 For it is the LORDE that geueth wy?dome, out of his mouth commeth knowlege and vnderstondinge.

  • Prov 15:32-33
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    79%

    32 He that refuseth to be refourmed, despyseth his owne soule: but he that submytteth himself to correccion, is wyse.

    33 The feare of ye LORDE is ye right scyece of wy?dome, and lowlynes goeth before honor.

  • Prov 15:5
    79%

    5 A foole despyseth his fathers correccion, but he yt taketh hede whan he is reproued, shal haue ye more vnderstodinge.

  • Prov 16:22
    78%

    22 Vnderstondinge is a well of life vnto him yt hath it, as for ye chastenynge of fooles, it is but foolishnesse.

  • Prov 8:13
    78%

    13 With me is the feare of the LORDE, and ye eschuynge of euell. As for pryde, disdayne, an euell waye, & a mouth that speaketh wicked thiges, I vtterly abhorre the.

  • Prov 1:29
    77%

    29 And yt because they hated knowlege, and receaued not ye feare of ye LORDE,

  • Prov 1:22
    77%

    22 O ye childre, how loge wil ye loue childyshnesse? how longe wil ye scorners delyte in scornynge, & ye vnwyse be enemies vnto knowlege?

  • Job 28:28
    77%

    28 And vnto man he sayde: Beholde, to feare the LORDE, is wy?dome: & to forsake euell, is vnderstondinge.

  • Prov 14:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7 Se yt thou medle not with a foole, & do as though thou haddest no knowlege.

    8 The wy?dome of him that hath vnderstondinge is, to take hede vnto his waye, but the foolishnesse of the vnwyse disceaueth.

  • Prov 14:16
    76%

    16 A wyse man, feareth, and departeth from euell, but a foole goeth on presumptuously.

  • Prov 12:1
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    1 Who so loueth wy?dome, wil be content to be refourmed: but he that hateth to be reproued, is a foole.

  • Prov 14:27
    76%

    27 The feare of the LORDE is a well of life, to auoyde the snares of death.

  • Prov 19:27
    76%

    27 My sonne, heare nomore the doctrine yt leadeth the awaye from the wordes of vnderstondinge.

  • Prov 3:7
    75%

    7 Be not wyse in thine owne conceate, but feare ye LORDE and departe from euell:

  • Prov 4:1
    75%

    1 Heare (O ye children) the fatherly exortacio, & take good hede, that ye maye lerne wy?dome.

  • Prov 17:24
    74%

    24 Wy?dome shyneth in ye face of him yt hath vnderstondinge, but ye eyes of fooles wandre thorow out all lodes.

  • Prov 8:5
    74%

    5 Take hede vnto knowlege o ye ignoraut, be wyse in herte o ye fooles.

  • Prov 15:14
    74%

    14 A wyse herte wil seke after knowlege, but ye mouth of fooles medleth with foolishnesse.

  • Prov 15:2
    74%

    2 A wyse tonge commendeth knowlege, a foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse.

  • Prov 10:14
    74%

    14 Wyse me laye vp knowlege, but ye mouth of ye foolish is nye destruccio.

  • Prov 5:1
    74%

    1 My sonne, geue hede vnto my wysdome, & bowe thine eare vnto my prudece:

  • Prov 13:1
    74%

    1 A wyse sonne wyll receaue his fathers warnynge, but he yt is scornefull, wyll not heare when he is reproued.

  • Prov 14:33
    74%

    33 Wy?dome resteth in the herte of him that hath vnderstondinge, and he wyll teach them that are vnlerned.

  • Prov 14:2
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    2 Who so feareth the LORDE, walketh in the right path: & regardeth not him that abhorreth the wayes of the LORDE.

  • Eccl 7:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 The herte of ye wyse is in the mournynge house, but the hert of the foolish is in the house of myrth.

    5 It is better to geue eare to the chastenynge of a wyse man, then to heare the songe of fooles.

  • Prov 15:7
    73%

    7 A wyse mouth poureth out knowlege, but ye herte of the foolish doth not so.

  • Prov 22:15
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    15 Foolishnes sticketh in the herte of ye lad, but ye rod of correccion driueth it awaye.

  • Prov 14:18
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    18 The ignoraut haue foolishnes in possessio, but the wyse are crowned with knowlege.

  • Prov 13:16
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    16 A wyse man doth all thinges with discrecion, but a foole wil declare his foly.

  • Prov 13:14
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    14 The lawe is a wel of life vnto the wyse, that it maye kepe him from the snares of death.

  • Ps 34:11
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    11 Come hither (o ye children) herken vnto me, I wil teach you the feare of the LORDE.

  • Prov 12:23
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    23 He that hath vnderstodinge, can hyde his wysdome: but an vndiscrete herte telleth out his foolishnesse.

  • Prov 9:6
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    6 Forsake ignorauce, and ye shal lyue: and se that ye go in the waye of vnderstondinge.

  • Prov 4:7
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    7 The chefe poynte of wy?dome is, that thou be wyllynge to opteyne wy?dome, and before all thy goodes to get the vnderstondynge.

  • Prov 8:33
    73%

    33 O geue eare vnto nurtoure, be wyse, and refuse it not.

  • Prov 19:3
    73%

    3 Foolishnesse maketh a man to go out of his waye, & then is his herte vnpacient agaynst the LORDE.

  • Prov 10:8
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    8 A wyse man wil receaue warnynge, but a foole wil sooner be smytten in the face.