Proverbs 2:2 - The Scriptures 1998

So that you make your ear attend to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thine heart to understanding;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Making your ear attentive to skillful and godly Wisdom and inclining and directing your heart and mind to understanding [applying all your powers to the quest for it];

American Standard Version (1901)

So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

Common English Bible

Turn your ear toward wisdom, and stretch your mind toward understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:

Proverbs 2:2 Cross References

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number our days, And let us bring the heart to wisdom.

Proverbs 18:1

The separatist seeks his own desire; He breaks out against all sound wisdom.

Proverbs 2:3

For if you cry for discernment, Lift up your voice for understanding,

Proverbs 23:12

Bring your heart to discipline, And your ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 4:1

Children, listen to the discipline of a father, And give attention to know understanding;

Proverbs 4:20

My son, listen to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman lacks heart; He who does it destroys his own life.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I have turned round, even my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom and a conclusion, to know the wrongness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the task which has been done on earth, even though one sees no sleep day or night,

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen; I applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which a man rules over a man for his evil.

Isaiah 55:3

“Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, so that your being lives. And let Me make an everlasting covenant with you, the trustworthy kindnesses of Dawiḏ

Matthew 13:9

“He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonike, who received the word with great eagerness, and searched the Scriptures daily, if these words were so.