Proverbs 4:5

World English Bible (2000)

Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Chr 34:2 : 2 He did that which was right in the eyes of Yahweh, and walked in the ways of David his father, and didn't turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
  • Job 23:11 : 11 My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned aside.
  • Ps 44:18 : 18 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
  • Ps 119:51 : 51 The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don't swerve from your law.
  • Ps 119:157 : 157 Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven't swerved from your testimonies.
  • Prov 1:22-23 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.
  • Prov 2:2-4 : 2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; 3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, 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 who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding. 14 For her good profit is better than getting silver, and her return is better than fine gold. 15 She is more precious than rubies. None of the things you can desire are to be compared to her. 16 Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor. 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace. 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.
  • Prov 16:16 : 16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
  • Prov 17:16 : 16 Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?
  • Prov 18:1 : 1 An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.
  • 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 don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
  • Jas 1:5 : 5 But 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
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    6 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

    7 Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

    8 Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

  • Prov 4:4
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    4 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.

  • Prov 5:7-8
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    7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

    8 Remove your way far from her. Don't come near the door of her house,

  • Prov 3:1
    78%

    1 My son, don't forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

  • Prov 5:1-2
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    1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

    2 that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 3:21
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    21 My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  • Prov 4:20-22
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    20 My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

    21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

    22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

  • Prov 4:13
    76%

    13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

  • Prov 1:8
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    8 My son, listen to your father's instruction, and don't forsake your mother's teaching:

  • Prov 4:10
    75%

    10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

  • Prov 19:8
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    8 He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

  • Prov 7:25
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    25 Don't let your heart turn to her ways. Don't go astray in her paths,

  • Prov 2:1-2
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    1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

    2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • Prov 2:10-11
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    10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

    11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

  • Prov 8:33
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    33 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don't refuse it.

  • Prov 7:4-5
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    4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,

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

  • Prov 23:23
    74%

    23 Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

  • Prov 2:6
    74%

    6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

  • Prov 4:1-2
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    74%

    1 Listen, sons, to a father's instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

    2 for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.

  • Prov 7:1
    74%

    1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

  • Prov 1:5
    74%

    5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

  • Prov 8:10-11
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    74%

    10 Receive my instruction rather than silver; knowledge rather than choice gold.

    11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it.

  • Prov 9:6
    73%

    6 Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."

  • Prov 1:2
    73%

    2 to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

  • Prov 16:22-23
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    22 Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.

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

  • Prov 6:20
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    20 My son, keep your father's commandment, and don't forsake your mother's teaching.

  • Prov 4:24
    73%

    24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

  • Prov 8:5
    73%

    5 You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.

  • Prov 6:24
    72%

    24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

  • Prov 2:17
    72%

    17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

  • Prov 4:15
    72%

    15 Avoid it, and don't pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.

  • Prov 16:16
    72%

    16 How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

  • Prov 3:13
    72%

    13 Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

  • Prov 22:17-18
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    72%

    17 Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

    18 For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

  • Prov 9:4
    72%

    4 "Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!" As for him who is void of understanding, she says to him,

  • Prov 3:3
    71%

    3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 23:9
    71%

    9 Don't speak in the ears of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.