My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
Proverbs 5:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 My child, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 My son, attend unto my wisdom, And bow thine ear to my understanding: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition MY SON, be attentive to my Wisdom [godly Wisdom learned by actual and costly experience], and incline your ear to my understanding [of what is becoming and prudent for you], American Standard Version (1901) My son, attend unto my wisdom; Incline thine ear to my understanding: Common English Bible My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Bend your ear to what I know, Catholic Public Domain Version My son, pay attention to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my prudence, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline thy ear to my prudence. |
My child, if you accept my words and treasure up my commandments within you,
The words of the wise: Incline your ear and hear my words and apply your mind to my teaching,
Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
My child, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the youths, a young man without sense,
and do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
You must understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters: let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger,
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Whoever conquers will not be harmed by the second death.
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give a white stone, and on the white stone is written a new name that no one knows except the one who receives it.
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches. To everyone who conquers, I will give permission to eat from the tree of life that is in the paradise of God.
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.”
Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches.