Proverbs 10:17 Cross References - BBE

¹⁷ He who takes note of teaching is a way of life, but he who gives up training is a cause of error.

¹⁶ But while he was talking to him the king said to him, Have we made you one of the king's government? say no more, or it will be the cause of your death. Then the prophet gave up protesting, and said, It is clear to me that God's purpose is your destruction, because you have done this and have not given ear to my words.

²⁵ You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words: ²⁶ So in the day of your trouble I will be laughing; I will make sport of your fear;

³⁰ They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

¹ My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart: ² For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

⁴ And he gave me teaching, saying to me, Keep my words in your heart; keep my rules so that you may have life:

¹³ Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.

¹² And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

²³ For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.

¹ A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.

¹⁰ There is bitter punishment for him who is turned from the way; and death will be the fate of the hater of teaching.

¹⁷ Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge. ¹⁸ For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips. ¹⁹ So that your faith may be in the Lord, I have made them clear to you this day, even to you.

¹ A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.

⁶ Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.

²⁴ Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock; ²⁵ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock. ²⁶ And everyone to whom my words come and who does them not, will be like a foolish man who made his house on sand; ²⁷ And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house; and it came down and great was its fall.

²⁸ But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.

¹ For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.

²⁵ See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

⁵ So, for this very cause, take every care; joining virtue to faith, and knowledge to virtue, ⁶ And self-control to knowledge, and a quiet mind to self-control, and fear of God to a quiet mind, ⁷ And love of the brothers to fear of God, and to love of the brothers, love itself. ⁸ For if you have these things in good measure, they will make you fertile and full of fruit in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins. ¹⁰ For this reason, my brothers, take all the more care to make your selection and approval certain; for if you do these things you will never have a fall: ¹¹ For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.