Proverbs 1:3
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
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Referenced Verses
- 1 Kgs 3:28 : 28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God [was] in him, to do judgment.
- Job 22:22 : 22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
- Prov 2:1-9 : 1 ¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding. 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly. 8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.
- Prov 8:10-11 : 10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. 11 For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
Similar Verses (AI)
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2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
- Prov 1:4-85 verses84%
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 ¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
- Prov 2:9-113 verses79%
9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; [yea], every good path.
10 ¶ When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
- Prov 3:13-142 verses76%
13 ¶ Happy [is] the man [that] findeth wisdom, and the man [that] getteth understanding.
14 For the merchandise of it [is] better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold.
- Prov 8:9-124 verses75%
9 They [are] all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11 For wisdom [is] better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
12 ¶ I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
- Prov 2:1-33 verses75%
1 ¶ My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, [and] apply thine heart to understanding;
3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, [and] liftest up thy voice for understanding;
- Prov 9:9-102 verses74%
9 Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.
10 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy [is] understanding.
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1 ¶ My son, attend unto my wisdom, [and] bow thine ear to my understanding:
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7 Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
- Prov 2:5-73 verses73%
5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth [cometh] knowledge and understanding.
7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: [he is] a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
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17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
- Prov 16:22-232 verses72%
22 ¶ Understanding [is] a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly.
23 ¶ The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
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1 ¶ Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
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33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
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11 ¶ Wisdom [is] good with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see the sun.
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12 ¶ Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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15 ¶ The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
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5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
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4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
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17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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21 ¶ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
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20 ¶ Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
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14 Counsel [is] mine, and sound wisdom: I [am] understanding; I have strength.
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22 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.
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28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that [is] wisdom; and to depart from evil [is] understanding.
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17 ¶ Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
- Job 34:2-32 verses70%
2 Hear my words, O ye wise [men]; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.
3 For the ear trieth words, as the mouth tasteth meat.
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15 ¶ Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors [is] hard.
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19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
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16 ¶ How much better [is it] to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
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25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason [of things], and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness [and] madness:
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1 ¶ Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
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3 ¶ Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: