Proverbs 23:12 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹² Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Apply thine heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Apply your mind to instruction and correction and your ears to words of knowledge.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Common English Bible

¹² Bring your mind to instruction, your ear to knowledgeable sayings.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Let your heart enter into doctrine, and let your ears enter into words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:12 Cross References

Proverbs 22:17

Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your mind to my knowledge;

Proverbs 23:11

for their Redeemer is strong; he will plead their cause against you.

Proverbs 23:13

Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you beat him with a rod, he will not die.

Proverbs 23:19

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

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with their lips they show much love, but their heart is set on their gain.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.”