Proverbs 4:7 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: And with all thy getting get understanding.

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Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom (skillful and godly Wisdom)! [For skillful and godly Wisdom is the principal thing.] And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation). [James 1:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

Common English Bible

⁷ The beginning of wisdom: Get wisdom! Get understanding before anything else.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The beginning of wisdom is to obtain wisdom, and, with all that you possess, to acquire prudence.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.

Proverbs 4:7 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth, and sell it not; Also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

Philippians 3:8

Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

Psalm 119:104

Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way.

Luke 10:42

but one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom, get understanding: Forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 8:23

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was.

2 Chronicles 1:10

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

Proverbs 2:4

If thou seekest her as silver, And searchest for her as for hid treasures;