Proverbs 22:17 Cross References - MLV

¹⁷ Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise and apply your heart to my knowledge.

¹² So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

³ to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness and justice and uprightness,

² so as to incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding, ³ because, if you cry after discernment and lift up your voice for understanding, ⁴ if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures, ⁵ then you will understand the fear of Jehovah and find the knowledge of God.

¹ My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart keep my commandments.

⁴ And he taught me and said to me, Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments and live.
⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding. Do not forget, nor decline from the words of my mouth. ⁶ Do not forsake her and she will preserve you. Love her and she will keep you.
⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, yes, get understanding with all your substance.
⁸ Exalt her and she will promote you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.

¹ My son, attend to my wisdom. Incline your ear to my understanding, ² that you may preserve discretion and that your lips may keep knowledge.

³³ Hear instruction and be wise and do not refuse it.
³⁴ The man who hears me is fortunate, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.

¹² Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.

²⁵ I turned about and my heart was set to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the reason of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.

⁹ All this I have seen and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

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

³ Incline your* ear and come to me. Hear and your* soul will live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you*, even the faithful holy things of David.

⁵ While he is still speaking, behold, a radiant cloud overshadowed them, and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am delighted; hear him!