Verse 8

¶ The wise in heart will receive commandments: but a prating fool shall fall.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 12:1 : 1 ¶ Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof [is] brutish.
• Matt 7:24-25 : 24 ‹Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:› 25 ‹And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.›
• Jas 3:13 : 13 ¶ Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
• Prov 12:13 : 13 ¶ The wicked is snared by the transgression of [his] lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.
• Prov 13:3 : 3 ¶ He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: [but] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
• Prov 14:8 : 8 ¶ The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way: but the folly of fools [is] deceit.
• Prov 14:23 : 23 ¶ In all labour there is profit: but the talk of the lips [tendeth] only to penury.
• Prov 18:6-7 : 6 ¶ A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. 7 A fool's mouth [is] his destruction, and his lips [are] the snare of his soul.
• Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with [my] whole heart.
• Prov 1:5 : 5 A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
• Prov 9:9 : 9 Give [instruction] to a wise [man], and he will be yet wiser: teach a just [man], and he will increase in learning.
• Prov 10:10 : 10 ¶ He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow: but a prating fool shall fall.
• Eccl 10:12 : 12 ¶ The words of a wise man's mouth [are] gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.