Proverbs 23:23 - 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

Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, above fine gold.

Psalm 119:72

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

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 16:16

To get wisdom is better than gold; to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 17:16

Why should a fool have a price in his hand to buy wisdom, when he has no mind?

Proverbs 18:15

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

Proverbs 9:8

Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you.

Isaiah 55:1

“Ho, every one who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has 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 a man found and covered up; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Matthew 13:46

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

Matthew 16:26

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and forfeits his life? Or what shall a man give in return for his life?

Acts 20:23

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.

Hebrews 11:26

He considered abuse suffered for the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked to the reward.

Revelation 12:11

And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Revelation 3:18

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