Proverbs 9:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ Lay aside immaturity and live, and walk in the way of insight.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ Forsake the foolish, and live; And go in the way of understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Leave off, simple ones [forsake the foolish and simpleminded] and live! And walk in the way of insight and understanding.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.

Common English Bible

⁶ Abandon your simplistic ways and live; walk in the way of understanding.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ Leave behind childishness. And live and walk by the ways of prudence."

Proverbs 9:6 Cross References

Proverbs 13:20

Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools suffers harm.

Proverbs 4:11

I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

2 Corinthians 6:17

Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you,

Revelation 18:4

Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, so that you do not take part in her sins and so that you do not share in her plagues,

Acts 2:40

And he testified with many other arguments and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this corrupt generation.”

Proverbs 9:11

For by me your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.

Proverbs 8:35

For whoever finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord,

Psalm 119:115

Go away from me, you evildoers, that I may keep the commandments of my God.

Psalm 45:10

Hear, O daughter, consider and incline your ear; forget your people and your father’s house,

Proverbs 10:17

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but one who rejects a rebuke goes astray.

Proverbs 23:19

Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.

Ezekiel 11:20

so that they may follow my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

Ezekiel 37:24

“My servant David shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes.