Proverbs 4:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Get wisdom, get understanding: do not forget it; neither turn away from the words of my mouth.

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  • 2 Chr 34:2 : 2 And he did what was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.
  • Job 23:11 : 11 My foot has held fast to his steps; his way have I kept, and not turned aside.
  • Ps 44:18 : 18 Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps declined from Your way;
  • Ps 119:51 : 51 The proud have had me greatly in derision, yet I have not turned aside from Your law.
  • Ps 119:157 : 157 Many are my persecutors and my enemies, yet I do not turn from Your testimonies.
  • Prov 1:22-23 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn at my rebuke; surely I will pour out my spirit upon you, I will make my words known to you.
  • Prov 2:2-4 : 2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; 3 Yes, if you cry out for knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding; 4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;
  • Prov 3:13-18 : 13 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gains understanding. 14 For its merchandise is better than the merchandise of silver, and its gain than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared to her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone who retains her.
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 O simple ones, understand wisdom; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold, and to choose understanding rather than silver!
  • Prov 17:16 : 16 Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no desire for it?
  • Prov 18:1 : 1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddles with all wisdom.
  • Prov 19:8 : 8 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding shall find good.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 4:6-8
    3 verses
    85%

    6Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

    7Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting, get understanding.

    8Exalt her, and she will promote you: she will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

  • Prov 4:4
    83%

    4He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

  • Prov 5:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

    7Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

    8Remove your way far from her, and do not come near the door of her house:

  • Prov 3:1
    78%

    1My son, do not forget my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:

  • Prov 5:1-2
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    78%

    1My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

    2That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 3:21
    78%

    21My son, let them not depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Prov 4:20-22
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    78%

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

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

    22For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

  • Prov 4:13
    76%

    13Take firm hold of instruction; do not let her go: keep her; for she is your life.

  • Prov 1:8
    76%

    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

  • Prov 4:10
    75%

    10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life will be many.

  • Prov 19:8
    75%

    8He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding shall find good.

  • Prov 7:25
    75%

    25Let not your heart incline to her ways, do not stray in her paths.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;

    2So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • Prov 2:10-11
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    75%

    10When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;

    11Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;

  • Prov 8:33
    75%

    33Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.

  • Prov 7:4-5
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    75%

    4Say to wisdom, You are my sister, and call understanding your kinswoman.

    5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 23:23
    74%

    23Buy the truth, and do not sell it, also wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

  • Prov 2:6
    74%

    6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Listen, you children, to the instruction of a father, and pay attention to gain understanding.

    2For I give you good teaching, do not forsake my law.

  • Prov 7:1
    74%

    1My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.

  • Prov 1:5
    74%

    5A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel;

  • Prov 8:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

    11For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired cannot compare to it.

  • Prov 9:6
    73%

    6Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

  • Prov 1:2
    73%

    2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

  • Prov 16:22-23
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    73%

    22Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

    23The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

  • Prov 6:20
    73%

    20My son, keep your father's commandment, and do not forsake the law of your mother:

  • Prov 4:24
    73%

    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Prov 8:5
    73%

    5O simple ones, understand wisdom; and you fools, be of an understanding heart.

  • Prov 6:24
    72%

    24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

  • Prov 2:17
    72%

    17Who forsakes the guide of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.

  • Prov 4:15
    72%

    15Avoid it, do not pass by it, turn from it, and pass away.

  • Prov 16:16
    72%

    16How much better is it to get wisdom than gold, and to choose understanding rather than silver!

  • Prov 3:13
    72%

    13Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gains understanding.

  • Prov 22:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge.

    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Prov 9:4
    72%

    4Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 3:3
    71%

    3Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart:

  • Prov 23:9
    71%

    9Do not speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.