Proverbs 23:23 - New Revised Standard Version

²³ Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; Also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Buy the truth and sell it not; not only that, but also get discernment and judgment, instruction and understanding.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Common English Bible

²³ Buy truth and don’t sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 23:23 Cross References

Psalm 119:127

Truly I love your commandments more than gold, more than fine gold.

Psalm 119:72

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother's grief.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 17:16

Why should fools have a price in hand to buy wisdom, when they have no mind to learn?

Proverbs 18:15

An intelligent mind acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 9:8

A scoffer who is rebuked will only hate you; the wise, when rebuked, will love you.

Isaiah 55:1

Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and you that have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Matthew 13:44

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Matthew 13:46

on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but forfeit their life? Or what will they give in return for their life?

Acts 20:23

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.

Hebrews 11:26

He considered abuse suffered for the Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward.

Revelation 12:11

But they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they did not cling to life even in the face of death.

Revelation 3:18

Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich; and white robes to clothe you and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen; and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.