Proverbs 8:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ Take my instruction instead of silver and knowledge rather than choice gold,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Receive my instruction in preference to [striving for] silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Take my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Accept my discipline, and not money. Choose the doctrine that is greater than gold.

Proverbs 8:10 Cross References

Psalm 119:127

Truly I love your commandments more than gold, more than fine gold.

Psalm 119:72

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Ecclesiastes 7:11

Wisdom is as good as an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.

Proverbs 10:20

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver; the mind of the wicked is of little worth.

Acts 3:6

Peter said, “I have no silver or gold, but what I have I give you; in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, stand up and walk.”

Proverbs 16:16

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Psalm 119:162

I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.

2 Corinthians 6:10

as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything.

Proverbs 8:19

My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.

Job 28:15

It cannot be gotten for gold, and silver cannot be weighed out as its price.

Job 28:17

Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor can it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

Proverbs 20:15

There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips informed by knowledge are a precious jewel.