Proverbs 19:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 My child, stop ignoring instruction, straying from words of knowledge. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Cease, my son, to hear the instruction That causeth to err from the words of knowledge. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Cease, my son, to hear instruction only to ignore it and stray from the words of knowledge. American Standard Version (1901) Cease, my son, to hear instruction Only to err from the words of knowledge. Common English Bible If, my child, you stop listening to discipline, you will wander away from words of knowledge. Catholic Public Domain Version Son, do not cease listening to doctrine, and do not be ignorant of the sermons of knowledge. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Cease not, O my son, to hear instruction, and be not ignorant of the words of knowledge. |
Jonadab said to him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill, and when your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat and prepare the food in my sight, so that I may see it and eat it from her hand.’ ”
The young men who had grown up with him said to him, “Thus should you speak to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you must lighten it for us’; tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s loins.
Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not find words of knowledge.
Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach.
A worthless witness mocks at justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
You, therefore, must not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers, who are saying to you, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon.”
Then they understood that he had not told them to beware of the yeast of bread but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Jesus said to them, “Watch out, and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and it will be added to you.
They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming;
Have nothing to do with profane and foolish tales. Train yourself in godliness,
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.
If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive and welcome this person into your house,
“I know your works, your toil and your endurance. I know that you cannot tolerate evildoers; you have tested those who claim to be apostles but are not and have found them to be false.