Proverbs 23:12

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¹²Apply your heart to instruction
and your ear to words of knowledge.

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Proverbs 2:2-6

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²making your ear attentive to wisdom
    and inclining your heart to understanding;
³yes, if you call out for insight
    and raise your voice ^(A)for understanding,
⁴if you seek it like ^(B)silver
    and search for it as for ^(C)hidden treasures,
⁵then ^(D)you will understand the fear of the Lord
    and find the knowledge of God.
⁶For ^(E)the Lord gives wisdom;
    from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;

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Proverbs 5:1-2

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Warning Against Adultery

5 ^(A)My son, be attentive to my wisdom;
^(B)incline your ear to my understanding,
²that you may keep ^(C)discretion,
and your lips may ^(D)guard knowledge.

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Matthew 13:52

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⁵²And he said to them, “Therefore every ^(A)scribe ^(B)who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who ^(C)brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”

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Ezekiel 33:31

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³¹^(A)And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for ^(B)with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.

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Proverbs 23:19

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¹⁹Hear, my son, and ^(A)be wise,
and ^(B)direct your heart in the way.

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James 1:21-25

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²¹Therefore ^(A)put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with ^(B)meekness the implanted word, ^(C)which is able to save your souls.

²²But be ^(D)doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. ²⁴For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. ²⁵But the one who looks into the perfect law, ^(E)the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, ^(F)he will be blessed in his doing.