Proverbs 4
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
attend
Proverbs 2:1-5 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you…
Proverbs 5:1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
Proverbs 7:4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister; and call understanding your kinswoman:
Proverbs 8:32-36 Now therefore listen to me, O you children: for blessed are they …
Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Proverbs 22:17 Bow down your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your …
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which …
For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.
good
Proverbs 8:6-9 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my …
Proverbs 22:20,21 Have not I written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge…
Deuteronomy 32:2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the …
Job 33:3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall …
Psalm 49:1-3 Hear this, all you people; give ear, all you inhabitants of the world…
John 7:16,17 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me…
1 Timothy 4:6 If you put the brothers in remembrance of these things, you shall …
Titus 1:9 Holding fast the faithful word as he has been taught, that he may …
forsake
1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …
2 Chronicles 7:19 But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, …
Psalm 89:30-32 If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments…
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
2 Samuel 12:24,25 And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in to her, and lay …
1 Kings 1:13-17 Go and get you in to king David, and say to him, Did not you, my …
1 Chronicles 3:5 And these were born to him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and …
1 Chronicles 22:5 And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house …
1 Chronicles 29:1 Furthermore David the king said to all the congregation, Solomon …
Jeremiah 10:23 O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in …
Romans 12:16 Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but …
He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
He
Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he …
Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household …
1 Chronicles 22:11-16 Now, my son, the LORD be with you; and prosper you, and build the …
1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …
Ephesians 6:4 And, you fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them …
2 Timothy 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in you, which …
2 Timothy 3:15 And that from a child you have known the holy scriptures…
Let
Proverbs 3:1 My son, forget not my law; but let your heart keep my commandments:
Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you …
Deuteronomy 6:6 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart:
Psalm 119:11 Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
keep
Proverbs 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of your eye.
Leviticus 18:3-5 After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein you dwelled, shall …
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; …
John 12:50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatever I speak …
Hebrews 5:9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation …
Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
get wisdom
Proverbs 1:22,23 How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners …
Proverbs 2:2-4 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding…
Proverbs 3:13-18 Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gets understanding…
Proverbs 8:5 O you simple, understand wisdom: and, you fools, be you of an understanding …
Proverbs 17:16 Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing …
Proverbs 18:1 Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddles …
Proverbs 19:8 He that gets wisdom loves his own soul: he that keeps understanding …
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
James 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that gives to all …
neither
2 Chronicles 34:2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, and walked …
Job 23:11 My foot has held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.
Psalm 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;
Psalm 119:51,157 The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined …
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
love
Proverbs 4:21,22 Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the middle of your heart…
Proverbs 2:10-12 When wisdom enters into your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul…
Ephesians 3:17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that you, being rooted …
2 Thessalonians 2:10 And with all delusion of unrighteousness in them that perish; because …
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
wisdom is
Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense: but the excellency …
Ecclesiastes 9:16-18 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor …
Matthew 13:44-46 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to treasure hid in a field; …
Luke 10:42 But one thing is needful: and Mary has chosen that good part, which …
Philippians 3:8 Yes doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency …
with
Proverbs 16:16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding …
Proverbs 21:6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to …
Psalm 49:16-20 Be not you afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house …
Ecclesiastes 2:4-9 I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards…
Mark 8:36,37 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, …
Luke 12:20 But God said to him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required …
get understanding
Psalm 119:104 Through your precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
Proverbs 3:35 The wise shall inherit glory: but shame shall be the promotion of fools.
Proverbs 22:4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honor, and life.
1 Samuel 2:30 Why the LORD God of Israel said, I said indeed that your house, and …
1 Kings 3:5-13 In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God …
Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament…
She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.
give
Proverbs 1:9 For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.
Proverbs 3:22 So shall they be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.
1 Timothy 2:9,10 In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, …
1 Peter 3:4 But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, …
a crown, or she shall compass thee with a crown of glory
Proverbs 16:31 The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Isaiah 28:5 In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and …
Hebrews 2:7-9 You made him a little lower than the angels; you crowned him with …
1 Peter 5:4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown …
Revelation 3:21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even …
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
my
Proverbs 8:10 Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Proverbs 19:20 Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Job 22:22 Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
Jeremiah 9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O you women, and let your ear receive …
John 3:32,33 And what he has seen and heard, that he testifies; and no man receives …
1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when you …
1 Timothy 1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ …
the
Proverbs 3:2,16 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to you…
Deuteronomy 5:16 Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded …
Deuteronomy 6:2 That you might fear the LORD your God, to keep all his statutes and …
I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
taught
Proverbs 4:4 He taught me also, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: …
Deuteronomy 4:5 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD …
1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for …
Ecclesiastes 12:9 And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the …
led
Proverbs 8:6,9,20 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my …
Psalm 23:3 He restores my soul: he leads me in the paths of righteousness for …
Psalm 25:4,5 Show me your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths…
Acts 13:10 And said, O full of all subtlety and all mischief, you child of the …
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
thou goest
Proverbs 6:22 When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; …
2 Samuel 22:37 You have enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
Job 18:7,8 The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel …
Psalm 18:36 You have enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
thou shalt
Proverbs 4:19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs 3:23 Then shall you walk in your way safely, and your foot shall not stumble.
Psalm 91:11,12 For he shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways…
Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they which love your law: and nothing shall offend them.
Jeremiah 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them…
John 4:39-42 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying …
she
Proverbs 3:22 So shall they be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.
1 Peter 2:8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense, even to them which …
1 John 2:10,11 He that loves his brother stays in the light, and there is none occasion …
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
take
Proverbs 3:18 She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and happy is …
Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Acts 2:42 And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, …
Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted …
1 Thessalonians 5:21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which …
Revelation 2:13 I know your works, and where you dwell, even where Satan's seat is: …
Revelation 12:11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of …
let
Genesis 32:26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not …
Songs 3:4 It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom …
Luke 24:27-29 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them …
John 4:34-42 Jesus said to them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, …
she
Proverbs 3:22 So shall they be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.
Deuteronomy 32:47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and …
Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defense, and money is a defense: but the excellency …
John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have …
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil men.
Proverbs 1:10,15 My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not…
Proverbs 2:11,12 Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you…
Proverbs 9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Proverbs 13:20 He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools …
Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, …
Psalm 26:4,5 I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers…
1 Corinthians 15:33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
Proverbs 5:8 Remove your way far from her, and come not near the door of her house:
Proverbs 6:5 Deliver yourself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird …
Exodus 23:7 Keep you far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous …
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness …
Job 22:23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put …
Isaiah 33:15 He that walks righteously, and speaks uprightly; he that despises …
Ephesians 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but …
1 Thessalonians 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Psalm 36:4 He devises mischief on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is …
Isaiah 57:20 But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose …
Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil on their beds! when …
Luke 22:66 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and the chief …
John 18:28 Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment: and it …
2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling …
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Proverbs 9:17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Proverbs 20:17 Bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall …
Job 24:5,6 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, go they forth to their work; …
Psalm 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people …
Jeremiah 5:26-28 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that …
Ezekiel 22:25-29 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the middle thereof, like …
Amos 8:4-6 Hear this, O you that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor …
Micah 3:5 Thus said the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, …
Micah 6:12 For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants …
Zephaniah 3:3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening …
Matthew 23:14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' …
James 5:4,5 Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, …
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
2 Samuel 23:4 And he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun rises, …
Job 11:17 And your age shall be clearer than the noonday: you shall shine forth, …
Job 23:10 But he knows the way that I take: when he has tried me, I shall come …
Psalm 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.
Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth …
Zechariah 14:6,7 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be …
Matthew 5:14,16,45 You are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid…
John 8:12 Then spoke Jesus again to them, saying, I am the light of the world: …
2 Corinthians 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the …
Philippians 2:15 That you may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without …
2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto you do well …
2 Peter 3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus …
Revelation 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine …
Revelation 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither …
The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble.
1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent …
Job 5:14 They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope in the noonday …
Job 12:25 They grope in the dark without light, and he makes them to stagger …
Job 18:5,6,18 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his …
Isaiah 59:9,10 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither does justice overtake …
Jeremiah 13:16 Give glory to the LORD your God, before he cause darkness, and before …
Jeremiah 23:12 Why their way shall be to them as slippery ways in the darkness: …
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess to them, I never knew you: depart from me, …
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind …
John 12:35 Then Jesus said to them, Yet a little while is the light with you. …
1 John 2:11 But he that hates his brother is in darkness, and walks in darkness, …
My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Proverbs 5:1 My son, attend to my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
Proverbs 6:20,21 My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not the law of …
Proverbs 7:1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with you.
Psalm 78:1 Give ear, O my people, to my law: incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.
Isaiah 55:3 Incline your ear, and come to me: hear, and your soul shall live; …
Matthew 17:5 While he yet spoke, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and …
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
depart
Proverbs 3:3,21 Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them about your neck; write …
in the
Proverbs 2:1 My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
Psalm 40:8 I delight to do your will, O my God: yes, your law is within my heart.
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
life
Proverbs 4:4,10 He taught me also, and said to me, Let your heart retain my words: …
health
Proverbs 3:8 It shall be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones.
Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue …
Jeremiah 33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and …
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
keep
Proverbs 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the fraudulent: he that does …
Proverbs 23:19 Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
Proverbs 28:26 He that trusts in his own heart is a fool: but whoever walks wisely, …
Deuteronomy 4:9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you …
Psalm 139:23,24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts…
Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: …
Mark 14:38 Watch you and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit truly …
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any …
with all diligence
Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all …
Proverbs 3:21 My son, let not them depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
Proverbs 11:16 A gracious woman retains honor: and strong men retain riches.
Proverbs 13:3 He that keeps his mouth keeps his life: but he that opens wide his …
Ecclesiastes 5:13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches …
for
Matthew 12:35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things…
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, …
Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, …
James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed…
Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.
put
Job 11:14 If iniquity be in your hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness …
Ezekiel 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; …
Ephesians 4:25-31 Why putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: …
Colossians 3:8 But now you also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, …
James 1:21,26 Why lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and …
1 Peter 2:1 Why laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and …
Proverbs 8:8,13 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing …
Proverbs 17:20 He that has a fraudulent heart finds no good: and he that has a perverse …
1 Timothy 6:5 Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the …
Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Proverbs 23:5,33 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly …
Job 31:1 I made a covenant with my eyes; why then should I think on a maid?
Psalm 119:37 Turn away my eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken you me in your way.
Matthew 6:22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, …
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
ponder
Proverbs 5:6 Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that …
Psalm 119:59 I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to your testimonies.
Ezekiel 18:28 Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions …
Haggai 1:5,7 Now therefore thus said the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways…
Ephesians 5:15,17 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise…
let all thy ways be established
Psalm 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delights in his way.
Psalm 40:2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, …
1 Thessalonians 3:13 To the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before …
2 Thessalonians 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.
1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who has called us to his eternal glory …
Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
turn
Deuteronomy 5:32 You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded …
Deuteronomy 12:32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: you shall not …
Deuteronomy 28:14 And you shall not go aside from any of the words which I command …
Joshua 1:7 Only be you strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do …
remove
Proverbs 16:17 The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keeps …
Isaiah 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before …
Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; hold …
