Proverbs 7:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Job 17:14 : 14 I have said to corruption, 'You are my father'; to the worm, 'You are my mother, and my sister.'
  • 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 4:6-8 : 6 Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you. 7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all your getting, get understanding. 8 Exalt her, and she will promote you: she will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.
  • Song 8:1 : 1 Oh, that you were like my brother, who nursed at my mother's breasts! When I find you outside, I would kiss you, and I would not be despised.
  • Matt 12:49-50 : 49 And he stretched out his hand toward his disciples and said, Look, my mother and my brothers! 50 For whoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
  • Luke 11:27-28 : 27 And it happened, as he spoke these things, a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to him, Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts which you have nursed. 28 But he said, On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it.

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

  • Prov 4:4-11
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    4He also taught me, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

    5Get wisdom, get understanding: do not forget it; neither turn away from the words of my mouth.

    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.

    9She will give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory she will deliver to you.

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

    11I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.

  • Prov 7:3
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    3Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 5:1-2
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    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 2:2-4
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    2So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

    3Yes, if you cry out for knowledge, and lift up your voice for understanding;

    4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

  • Prov 9:4
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    4Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

  • Song 4:9-10
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    9You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

    10How fair is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your ointments than all spices!

  • Song 4:12
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    12A garden enclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

  • Prov 8:1
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    1Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding raise her voice?

  • Prov 2:10-11
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    10When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;

    11Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;

  • Prov 5:7
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    7Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 8:11-12
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    11For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired cannot compare to it.

    12I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

  • Mic 7:5
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    5Do not trust in a friend, put no confidence in a guide: keep the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your bosom.

  • Prov 8:14
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    14Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom; I am understanding, I have strength.

  • Song 8:1
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    1Oh, that you were like my brother, who nursed at my mother's breasts! When I find you outside, I would kiss you, and I would not be despised.

  • Prov 7:1
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    1My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.

  • Prov 1:2
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    2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;

  • Prov 3:4
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    4So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  • Prov 1:8-9
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    8My son, hear the instruction of your father, and do not forsake the law of your mother;

    9For they shall be a graceful ornament on your head and chains about your neck.

  • Prov 4:1
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    1Listen, you children, to the instruction of a father, and pay attention to gain understanding.

  • Prov 7:24-25
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    24Therefore listen to me now, O children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

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

  • Ps 45:10
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    10Listen, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear; forget your own people, and your father's house;

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    20And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Prov 2:16
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    16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;

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

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    16Whoever is simple, let him turn in here: and as for him who lacks understanding, she says to him,

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    8We have a little sister, and she has no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day she is spoken for?

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    11Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to those who see the sun.

  • Prov 6:24
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    24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

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

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

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

  • Prov 9:1
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    1Wisdom has built her house, she has carved out her seven pillars:

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    8If you do not know, O fairest among women, follow the trail of the flock, and feed your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.

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    21Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.