Proverbs 2:2 Cross References - NSB

² Pay close attention to wisdom, and let your [mind and] heart (inner being) reach for discernment.

¹² Teach us to number each of our days so that we may present to you a heart of wisdom.

¹¹¹ I have inherited your laws forever, for they are the joy of my heart. ¹¹² I have inclined my heart to perform your statutes forever, to the end.

¹ A man of solitude (who keeps to himself) (isolates himself) seeks his own (selfish) desire. He objects to sound wisdom.

¹⁷ Incline your ear and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart and mind to my knowledge. ¹⁸ It is pleasant that you keep them within you. They will be firmly established on you lips. ¹⁹ Your trust may be in Jehovah. I taught you today, even you. ²⁰ Have I not written to you excellent things in counsel and knowledge? ²¹ I make you know the certainty of the words of truth. And you will answer the words of truth to those who speak to you.

¹² Apply your heart to instruction (discipline), and your ears to words of knowledge.

²⁵ I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom. I looked for the explanation, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.

⁹ I have seen all this and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time when one man rules over another to his own misery and harm.

¹⁶ When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes)

³ Give ear and come to me; listen to me, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.

⁹ »He that has ears let him hear.«

¹¹ The Bereans were nobler than those in Thessalonica because they received the word with all readiness of mind and examined the Scriptures daily to see if what Paul told them was true.