Proverbs 19:2
It isn't good to have zeal without knowledge; nor being hasty with one's feet and missing the way.
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- Prov 21:5 : 5 The plans of the diligent surely lead to profit; and everyone who is hasty surely rushes to poverty.
- Prov 29:20 : 20 Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Eccl 7:9 : 9 Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
- Eccl 12:9 : 9 Further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge. Yes, he pondered, sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
- Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
- Isa 28:16 : 16 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.
- Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.
- John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor me.
- Rom 10:2 : 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
- Phil 1:9 : 9 This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;
- Prov 25:8 : 8 Don't be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
- Prov 28:20 : 20 A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.
- Prov 28:22 : 22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.
- Job 31:5 : 5 "If I have walked with falsehood, and my foot has hurried to deceit
- Prov 1:16 : 16 for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.
- Prov 14:29 : 29 He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a quick temper displays folly.
- Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
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