Proverbs 9:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ Leave simpleness, 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."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.

Proverbs 9:6 Cross References

Psalm 119:115

Depart 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

He who heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof goes astray.

Proverbs 13:20

He who walks with wise men becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Proverbs 23:19

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

Proverbs 4:11

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

Proverbs 8:35

For he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from the Lord;

Proverbs 9:11

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

Ezekiel 11:20

that they may walk in my statutes and keep my ordinances and obey them; and 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.

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter by the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Acts 2:40

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

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, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;