Proverbs 2:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

² so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thine heart to understanding;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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)

² So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

Common English Bible

² Turn your ear toward wisdom, and stretch your mind toward understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.

Proverbs 2:2 Cross References

Proverbs 23:12

Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Proverbs 18:1

Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

Matthew 13:9

Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

Acts 17:11

These were more noble than those in Thessaloni´ca, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

Proverbs 2:3

yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;

Proverbs 4:1

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Proverbs 4:20

My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Proverbs 6:32

But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.