Proverbs 4:7 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁷ 4 Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: And with all thy getting get understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom (skillful and godly Wisdom)! [For skillful and godly Wisdom is the principal thing.] And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation). [James 1:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

Common English Bible

⁷ The beginning of wisdom: Get wisdom! Get understanding before anything else.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The beginning of wisdom is to obtain wisdom, and, with all that you possess, to acquire prudence.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.

Proverbs 4:7 Cross References

2 Chronicles 1:10

5 And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees as sycamores, which grow in the plains in great multitude.

Psalm 119:104

11 I have purchased thy testimonies for an inheritance for ever: because they are a joy to my heart.

Proverbs 16:16

3 The heart of the wise shall instruct his mouth: and shall add grace to his lips.

Proverbs 2:4

1 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

Proverbs 21:6

3 He that stoppeth his ear against the cry of the poor, shall also cry himself and shall not be heard.

Proverbs 23:23

0 Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups.

Proverbs 4:5

2 Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.

Proverbs 8:23

0 I was with him forming all things: and was delighted every day, playing before him at all times;

Ecclesiastes 4:8

5 I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

9 Wisdom hath strengthened the wise more than ten princes of the city.

Luke 10:42

Yet if he shall continue knocking, I say to you, although he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend; yet, because of his importunity, he will rise, and give him as many as he needeth.

Luke 12:20

8 Now if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more you, O ye of little faith?

Philippians 3:8

7 Be ye followers of me, brethren, and observe them who walk so as you have our model.