Proverbs 16:16
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16 How much better to get wisdom than gold!
To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.(A)
Proverbs 8:10-11
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10 Take my instruction instead of silver
and knowledge rather than choice gold,(A)
11 for wisdom is better than jewels,
and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.(B)
Matthew 16:26
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26 For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?
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Proverbs 8:19
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19 My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold,
and my yield than choice silver.(A)
Ecclesiastes 7:12
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12 For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money,
and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to the one who possesses it.
Proverbs 4:7
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7 The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom,
and whatever else you get, get insight.(A)
Luke 12:21
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21 So it is with those who store up treasures for themselves but are not rich toward God.”(A)
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Proverbs 3:15-18
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15 She is more precious than jewels,
and nothing you desire can compare with her.(A)
16 Long life is in her right hand;
in her left hand are riches and honor.(B)
17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
and all her paths are peace.(C)
18 She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her;
those who hold her fast are called happy.(D)
Psalm 119:127
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127 Truly I love your commandments
more than gold, more than fine gold.(A)
Job 28:13-28
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13 Mortals do not know the way to it,[a]
and it is not found in the land of the living.(A)
14 The deep says, ‘It is not in me,’
and the sea says, ‘It is not with me.’
15 It cannot be gotten for gold,
and silver cannot be weighed out as its price.
16 It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir,
in precious onyx or sapphire.[b]
17 Gold and glass cannot equal it,
nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.(B)
18 No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal;
the price of wisdom is above pearls.(C)
19 The chrysolite of Cush cannot compare with it,
nor can it be valued in pure gold.(D)
20 “Where then does wisdom come from?
And where is the place of understanding?(E)
21 It is hidden from the eyes of all living
and concealed from the birds of the air.
22 Abaddon and Death say,
‘We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.’(F)
23 “God understands the way to it,
and he knows its place.(G)
24 For he looks to the ends of the earth
and sees everything under the heavens.(H)
25 When he gave to the wind its weight
and apportioned out the waters by measure,(I)
26 when he made a decree for the rain,
and a way for the thunderbolt,(J)
27 then he saw it and declared it;
he established it and searched it out.
28 And he said to humankind,
‘Truly, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom;
and to depart from evil is understanding.’ ”(K)
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