Verse 23

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

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 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; whereunto you do well that you take heed, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns, and the day 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.