Proverbs 19:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ Hear counsel, receive instruction, and accept correction, that you may be wise in the time to come.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Listen to advice and accept instruction, so you might grow wise in the future.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ Listen to counsel and take up discipline, so that you may be wise in your latter days.

Proverbs 19:20 Cross References

Proverbs 12:15

Fools think their own way is right, but the wise listen to advice.

Proverbs 4:1

Listen, children, to a father’s instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,

Proverbs 1:8

Hear, my child, your father’s instruction, and do not reject your mother’s teaching,

Numbers 23:10

Who can count the dust of Jacob or number the dust cloud of Israel? Let me die the death of the upright, and let my end be like his!”

Psalm 90:14

Satisfy us in the morning with your steadfast love, so that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Psalm 37:37

Mark the blameless and behold the upright, for there is posterity for the peaceable.

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

Deuteronomy 8:16

He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your ancestors did not know, to humble you and to test you and in the end to do you good.

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what their end would be.

Proverbs 1:3

for gaining instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;

Proverbs 8:14

I have good advice and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength.

Proverbs 8:33

Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.

Proverbs 19:19

A violent-tempered person will pay the penalty; if you effect a rescue, you will only have to do it again.

Proverbs 1:2

For learning about wisdom and instruction, for understanding words of insight,

Proverbs 13:10

By insolence the empty-headed person makes strife, but wisdom is with those who take advice.

Proverbs 15:32

Those who ignore instruction despise themselves, but those who heed admonition gain understanding.

Jeremiah 6:8

Take warning, O Jerusalem, or I shall turn from you in disgust and make you a desolation, an uninhabited land.

Zephaniah 3:7

I said, “Surely the city will fear me; it will accept correction; it will not lose sight of all that I have brought upon it.” But they were the more eager to make all their deeds corrupt.