Proverbs 17:16
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16 Why should fools have a price in hand
to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?
Proverbs 23:23
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23 Buy truth, and do not sell it;
buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.(A)
Proverbs 21:25-26
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25 The craving of the lazy person is fatal,
for lazy hands refuse to labor.(A)
26 All day long the wicked covet,[a]
but the righteous give and do not hold back.(B)
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- 21.26 Gk: Heb all day long one covets covetously
Proverbs 18:15
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15 An intelligent mind acquires knowledge,
and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Proverbs 8:4-5
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4 “To you, O people, I call,
and my cry is to all who live.
5 O simple ones, learn prudence;
acquire intelligence, you who lack it.(A)
2 Corinthians 6:1
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6 As we work together with him,[a] we entreat you also not to accept the grace of God in vain.(A)
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- 6.1 Gk As we work together
Acts 28:26-27
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26 ‘Go to this people and say,
You will indeed listen but never understand,
and you will indeed look but never perceive.
27 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and their ears are hard of hearing,
and they have shut their eyes;
otherwise they might look with their eyes
and listen with their ears
and understand with their heart and turn—
and I would heal them.’
Deuteronomy 5:29
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29 If only they had such a mind as this, to fear me and to keep all my commandments always, so that it might go well with them and with their children forever!(A)
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Acts 13:46
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46 Then both Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, saying, “It was necessary that the word of God should be spoken first to you. Since you reject it and judge yourselves to be unworthy of eternal life, we are now turning to the gentiles.(A)
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John 3:20
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20 For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed.(A)
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Hosea 4:11
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11 prostitution.
The Idolatry of Israel
Wine and new wine
take away the understanding.(A)
Isaiah 55:1-3
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An Invitation to Abundant Life
55 Hear, everyone who thirsts;
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without price.(A)
2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread
and your earnings for that which does not satisfy?
Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good,
and delight yourselves in rich food.(B)
3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
listen, so that you may live.
I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.(C)
Proverbs 14:6
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6 A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain,
but knowledge is easy for one who understands.
Proverbs 9:4-6
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4 “You who are simple, turn in here!”
To those without sense she says,(A)
5 “Come, eat of my bread
and drink of the wine I have mixed.(B)
6 Lay aside immaturity and live,
and walk in the way of insight.”(C)
Proverbs 1:22-23
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22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
and fools hate knowledge?(A)
23 Give heed to my reproof;
I will pour out my thoughts to you;
I will make my words known to you.(B)
Psalm 81:11-13
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11 “But my people did not listen to my voice;
Israel would not submit to me.(A)
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts,
to follow their own counsels.(B)
13 O that my people would listen to me,
that Israel would walk in my ways!(C)
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