Proverbs 6:23

World English Bible (2000)

For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:105 : 105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.
  • Ps 19:8 : 8 Yahweh's precepts are right, rejoicing the heart. Yahweh's commandment is pure, enlightening the eyes.
  • Ps 119:98-99 : 98 Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.
  • Lev 19:17 : 17 "'You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your neighbor, and not bear sin because of him.
  • Ps 141:5 : 5 Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; don't let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.
  • Prov 3:18 : 18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
  • Prov 4:4 : 4 He taught me, and said to me: "Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
  • Prov 5:12 : 12 and say, "How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
  • Prov 15:24 : 24 The path of life leads upward for the wise, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.
  • Prov 15:31 : 31 The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.
  • Prov 29:15 : 15 The rod of correction gives wisdom, but a child left to himself causes shame to his mother.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
  • Jer 21:8 : 8 To this people you shall say, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
  • 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 We have the more sure word of prophecy; and you do well that you heed it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the morning star arises in your hearts:
  • Rev 2:5 : 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.

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

    21 Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

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  • Prov 10:17
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    17 He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.

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

  • Prov 13:14-15
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    14 The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, to turn from the snares of death.

    15 Good understanding wins favor; but the way of the unfaithful is hard.

  • Prov 4:13
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    13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

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

  • Prov 15:31
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    31 The ear that listens to reproof lives, and will be at home among the wise.

  • Ps 19:7-8
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    7 Yahweh's law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh's testimony is sure, making wise the simple.

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

    2 Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

  • Job 6:25
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    25 How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

  • Prov 4:2
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    2 for I give you sound learning. Don't forsake my law.

  • Prov 22:6
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    6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

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    105 Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light for my path.

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    23 Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

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

  • Prov 23:19
    69%

    19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

  • Prov 15:10
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    10 There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

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    9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

  • Deut 6:1
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  • Prov 4:11
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    11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.

  • Prov 5:6
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    6 She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn't know it.

  • Isa 30:21
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    21 and when you turn to the right hand, and when you turn to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "This is the way. Walk in it."

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    16 He who keeps the commandment keeps his soul, but he who is contemptuous in his ways shall die.

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    5 A fool despises his father's correction, but he who heeds reproof shows prudence.

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    20 Turn to the law and to the testimony! If they don't speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

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    3 to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

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    17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of Yahweh your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he has commanded you.

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    9 For with you is the spring of life. In your light shall we see light.

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    18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

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