Proverbs 22:17
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Sayings of the Wise
17 The words of the wise:
Incline your ear and hear my words[a]
and apply your mind to my teaching,
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- 22.17 Cn Compare Gk: Heb Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise
Proverbs 23:12
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12 Apply your mind to instruction
and your ear to words of knowledge.(A)
Proverbs 3:1
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Admonition to Trust and Honor God
3 My child, do not forget my teaching,
but let your heart keep my commandments,(A)
Psalm 90:12
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12 So teach us to count our days
that we may gain a wise heart.(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:25
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25 I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.(A)
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Proverbs 2:2-5
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2 making your ear attentive to wisdom
and inclining your heart to understanding,
3 if you indeed cry out for insight
and raise your voice for understanding,
4 if you seek it like silver
and search for it as for hidden treasures—(A)
5 then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God.(B)
Proverbs 1:3
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3 for gaining instruction in wise dealing,
righteousness, justice, and equity;(A)
Matthew 17:5
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5 While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, the Beloved;[a] with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”(A)
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- 17.5 Or my beloved Son
Ecclesiastes 8:9
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9 All this I observed, applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while one person exercises authority over another to the other’s hurt.(A)
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Proverbs 8:33-34
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33 Hear instruction and be wise,
and do not neglect it.
34 Happy is the one who listens to me,
watching daily at my gates,
waiting beside my doors.(A)
Proverbs 5:1-2
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Warning against Impurity and Infidelity
5 My child, be attentive to my wisdom;
incline your ear to my understanding,(A)
2 so that you may hold on to prudence,
and your lips may guard knowledge.
Isaiah 55:3
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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.(A)
Ecclesiastes 8:16
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16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, how one’s eyes see sleep neither day nor night,
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Proverbs 4:4-8
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4 he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
keep my commandments and live.(A)
5 Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget nor turn away
from the words of my mouth.(B)
6 Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
love her, and she will guard you.(C)
7 The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom,
and whatever else you get, get insight.(D)
8 Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
she will honor you if you embrace her.(E)
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