Proverbs 8:33

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 4:1 : 1 Admonition to Follow Righteousness and Avoid Wickedness Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.
  • Prov 5:1 : 1 Admonition to Avoid Seduction to Evil My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,
  • Prov 1:2-3 : 2 To learn wisdom and moral instruction, to discern wise counsel. 3 To receive moral instruction in skillful living, with righteousness, justice, and equity.
  • Prov 1:8 : 8 Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.
  • Prov 1:21 : 21 at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:
  • Ps 81:11-12 : 11 But my people did not obey me; Israel did not submit to me. 12 I gave them over to their stubborn desires; they did what seemed right to them.
  • Isa 55:1-3 : 1 The Lord Gives an Invitation“Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost! 2 Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food! 3 Pay attention and come to me! Listen, so you can live! Then I will make an unconditional covenantal promise to you, just like the reliable covenantal promises I made to David.
  • Acts 7:35-37 : 35 This same Moses they had rejected, saying,‘Who made you a ruler and judge?’ God sent as both ruler and deliverer through the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. 36 This man led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. 37 This is the Moses who said to the Israelites,‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’
  • Rom 10:16-17 : 16 But not all have obeyed the good news, for Isaiah says,“Lord, who has believed our report?” 17 Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.
  • Heb 12:25 : 25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 8:32
    79%

    32“So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.

  • Prov 15:31-32
    2 verses
    78%

    31The person who hears the reproof that leads to life is at home among the wise.

    32The one who refuses correction despises himself, but whoever listens to reproof acquires understanding.

  • Prov 8:34
    78%

    34Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway.

  • Prov 1:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7Introduction to the Theme of the Book Fearing the LORD is the beginning of discernment, but fools have despised wisdom and moral instruction.

    8Listen, my child, to the instruction from your father, and do not forsake the teaching from your mother.

  • Prov 4:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1Admonition to Follow Righteousness and Avoid Wickedness Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and pay attention so that you may gain discernment.

    2Because I hereby give you good instruction, do not forsake my teaching.

  • Prov 5:1
    76%

    1Admonition to Avoid Seduction to Evil My child, be attentive to my wisdom, pay close attention to my understanding,

  • Prov 8:10
    76%

    10Receive my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

  • Prov 1:5
    76%

    5(Let the wise also hear and gain instruction, and let the discerning acquire guidance!)

  • Job 33:33
    76%

    33If not, you listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom.”

  • Prov 10:17
    76%

    17The one who heeds instruction is on the way to life, but the one who rejects rebuke goes astray.

  • Prov 22:17
    75%

    17The Sayings of the Wise Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my instruction.

  • Prov 19:20
    75%

    20Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.

  • Prov 13:1
    75%

    1A wise son accepts his father’s discipline, but a scoffer has never listened to rebuke.

  • Prov 23:12
    75%

    12Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 23:19
    75%

    19Listen, my child, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right way.

  • Prov 4:5
    75%

    5Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.

  • Prov 5:7
    75%

    7So now, children, listen to me; do not turn aside from the words I speak.

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1Benefits of Seeking Wisdom My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands inside yourself,

    2by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,

  • Prov 7:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24So now, sons, listen to me, and pay attention to the words I speak.

    25Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways– do not wander into her pathways;

  • Prov 4:20
    74%

    20My child, pay attention to my words; listen attentively to my sayings.

  • Prov 19:27
    73%

    27If you stop listening to instruction, my child, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 8:5
    73%

    5You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!

  • Prov 13:18
    73%

    18The one who neglects discipline ends up in poverty and shame, but the one who accepts reproof is honored.

  • Prov 9:9
    73%

    9Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.

  • Prov 15:5
    73%

    5A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds reproof shows good sense.

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

    10Listen, my child, and accept my words, so that the years of your life will be many.

  • Job 34:16
    72%

    16God Is Impartial and Omniscient“If you have understanding, listen to this, hear what I have to say.

  • Prov 10:8
    72%

    8The wise person accepts instructions, but the one who speaks foolishness will come to ruin.

  • Prov 1:3
    72%

    3To receive moral instruction in skillful living, with righteousness, justice, and equity.

  • Prov 23:9
    72%

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

  • Prov 9:6
    72%

    6Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding.”

  • Prov 1:25
    72%

    25and you neglected all my advice, and did not comply with my rebuke,

  • Prov 1:15
    72%

    15My child, do not go down their way, withhold yourself from their path;

  • Eccl 7:5
    72%

    5Frivolous Living Versus Wisdom It is better for a person to receive a rebuke from those who are wise than to listen to the song of fools.

  • Job 34:2
    71%

    2“Listen to my words, you wise men; hear me, you learned men.

  • Isa 28:23
    71%

    23Pay attention and listen to my message! Be attentive and listen to what I have to say!

  • Prov 4:13
    71%

    13Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; protect it, because it is your life.

  • Prov 4:15
    71%

    15Avoid it, do not go on it; turn away from it, and go on.

  • Prov 23:23
    71%

    23Acquire truth and do not sell it– wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.

  • Prov 3:1
    71%

    1Exhortations to Seek Wisdom and Walk with the Lord My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

  • Prov 1:23
    71%

    23You should respond to my rebuke. Then I would pour out my thoughts to you; I would make my words known to you.

  • Prov 5:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12And you will say,“How I hated discipline! My heart spurned reproof!

    13For I did not obey my teachers and I did not heed my instructors.

  • Prov 1:30
    71%

    30they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.