Proverbs 23:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Apply thine heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Apply your mind to instruction and correction and your ears to words of knowledge.

American Standard Version (1901)

Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Common English Bible

Bring your mind to instruction, your ear to knowledgeable sayings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Let your heart enter into doctrine, and let your ears enter into words of knowledge.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:12 Cross References

Proverbs 22:17

The words of the wise: Incline your ear and hear my words and apply your mind to my teaching,

Proverbs 23:11

for their vindicator is strong; he will plead their cause against you.

Proverbs 23:13

Do not withhold discipline from your children; if you beat them with a rod, they will not die.

Proverbs 23:19

Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not obey them. For flattery is on their lips, but their heart is set on their gain.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple in the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”