Proverbs 23:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge;

Proverbs 23:11

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

Proverbs 23:13

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 23:19

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

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with their lips they show much love, but their heart is set on their gain.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”