Proverbs 23:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Buy the truth, and sell it not; Also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Buy the truth and sell it not; not only that, but also get discernment and judgment, instruction and understanding. American Standard Version (1901) Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. Common English Bible Buy truth and don’t sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. Catholic Public Domain Version Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. |
The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise child makes a glad father, but a foolish child is a mother’s grief.
How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Why should fools have a price in hand to buy wisdom when they have no mind to learn?
An intelligent mind acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Do not rebuke a scoffer, lest he hate you; rebuke the wise, and he will love you.
Hear, everyone who thirsts; come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and reburied; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it.
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?
except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and persecutions are waiting for me.
He considered abuse suffered for the Christ to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking ahead to the reward.
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.
Therefore I advise you to buy from me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white robes to clothe yourself and to keep the shame of your nakedness from being seen, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.