Proverbs 4:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: And with all thy getting get understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom (skillful and godly Wisdom)! [For skillful and godly Wisdom is the principal thing.] And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation). [James 1:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

Common English Bible

⁷ The beginning of wisdom: Get wisdom! Get understanding before anything else.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The beginning of wisdom is to obtain wisdom, and, with all that you possess, to acquire prudence.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.

Proverbs 4:7 Cross References

2 Chronicles 1:10

Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this thy people, that is so great?”

Psalm 119:104

Through thy precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Proverbs 16:16

To get wisdom is better than gold; to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures;

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Proverbs 23:23

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

Proverbs 4:5

do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth. Get wisdom; get insight.

Proverbs 8:23

Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money; and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Luke 10:42

one thing is needful. Mary has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.”

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you; and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Philippians 3:8

Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ