Proverbs 2:4

Coverdale Bible (1535)

yf thou sekest after her as after money, and dyggest for her as for treasure:

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  • Matt 13:44 : 44 Agayne, the kingdome of heauen is like vnto a treasure hyd in the felde, which a ma founde and hid it, and for ioye therof he wete & solde all yt he had, and bought yt felde.
  • Job 3:21 : 21 (Which longe for death, and it commeth not: for yf they might fynde their graue,
  • Job 28:12-20 : 12 How commeth a man then by wy?dome? Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge? 13 Verely no man can tell how worthy a thinge she is, nether is she foude in the lode of the lyuynge. 14 The depe sayeth: she is not in me. The see sayeth: she is not with me. 15 She can not be gotten for the most fyne golde, nether maye the pryce of her be bought with eny moneye. 16 No wedges of golde of Ophir, no precious Onix stones, no Saphirs maye be compared vnto her. 17 No, nether golde ner Christall, nether swete odours ner golden plate. 18 There is nothinge so worthy, or so excellet, as once to be named vnto her: for parfecte wy?dome goeth farre beyonde the all. 19 The Topas that cometh out of Inde, maye in no wyse be lickened vnto her: yee no maner of apparell how pleasaunt and fayre so euer it be. 20 From whece then commeth wy?dome? & where is the place of vnderstondinge?
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 More pleasunt are they then golde, yee then moch fyne golde: sweter then hony & the hony combe.
  • Ps 119:14 : 14 I haue as greate delite in the waye of thy testimonies, as in all maner of riches.
  • Ps 119:72 : 72 The lawe of thy mouth is dearer vnto me, the thousandes of golde & syluer.
  • Ps 119:127 : 127 For I loue thy comaundemetes aboue golde and precious stone.
  • Prov 3:14-15 : 14 for the gettinge of it is better then eny marchaundise of syluer, & the profit of it is better then golde. 15 Wy?dome is more worth the precious stones, & all ye thinges yt thou canst desyre, are not to be compared vnto her.
  • Prov 8:18-19 : 18 Riches & honoure are wt me, yee excellent goodes & rightuousnes. 19 My frute is better the golde & precious stone, & myne encrease more worth then fyne syluer.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 To haue wy?dome in possession is better then golde, and to get vnderstondynge, is more worth then syluer.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Labor for to get ye treuth: sell not awaye wy?dome, nourtor & vnderstodinge
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one man, no mo but himself alone, hauynge nether childe ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches, (yet doth he not remembre himself, & saye:) For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne and miserable thinge.
  • Matt 6:19-21 : 19 Se that ye gather you not treasure vpon the earth, where rust and mothes corrupte, and where theues breake through and steale. 20 But gather you treasure together in heauen, where nether rust nor mothes corrupte, and where theues nether breake vp nor yet steale. 21 For where youre treasure is, there is youre herte also.
  • Matt 19:21-22 : 21 Iesus sayde vnto him: Yf thou wilt be perfecte, go thy waye and sell that thou hast, & geue it vnto the poore, and thou shalt haue a treasure in heauen, and come and folowe me. 22 Whan ye yonge man herde yt worde, he wente awaye sory, for he had greate possessions.
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 And who so euer forsaketh houses or brethre, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or londes, for my names sake, the same shal receaue an hundreth folde, and inheret euerlastinge life.
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 And the lorde comended the vnrighteous stewarde, because he had done wysely. For the children of this worlde are in their kynde wyser, the the children of light.

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    1My sonne, yf thou wilt receaue my wordes, and kepe my comaundemetes by the,

    2that thine eare maye herken vnto wysdome, applie thine herte then to vnderstodinge.

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  • Prov 3:13-16
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    13Well is him that fyndeth wy?dome, & opteyneth vnderstondinge,

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    15Wy?dome is more worth the precious stones, & all ye thinges yt thou canst desyre, are not to be compared vnto her.

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    14Euen so shall ye knowlege of wysdome be vnto yi soule, as soone as thou hast gotte it. And there is good hope, yee yi hope shal not be in vayne.

  • Prov 8:9-12
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    9They are all playne to soch as wil vnderstode, & right to the that fynde knowlege.

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    1There are places where syluer is molte, & where golde is tryed:

  • Prov 8:35
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    35For who so fyndeth me, fyndeth life, and shal optayne fauoure of the LORDE.

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    8Make moch of her, and she shal promote the: Yee yf thou embracest her, she shal brynge the vnto honoure.

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    12How commeth a man then by wy?dome? Where is the place that men fynde vnderstondinge?

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    16To haue wy?dome in possession is better then golde, and to get vnderstondynge, is more worth then syluer.

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    4With thy wi?dome & thy vnderstodinge, thou hast gotte the greate welthynesse, and gathered treasure of syluer & golde.

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    10Who so fyndeth an honest faithful woma, she is moch more worth the perles.

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