Proverbs 23:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; Also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Buy the truth and sell it not; not only that, but also get discernment and judgment, instruction and understanding.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Common English Bible

²³ Buy truth and don’t sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 23:23 Cross References

Psalm 119:127

Therefore I love thy commandments Above gold, yea, above fine gold.

Psalm 119:72

The law of thy mouth is better unto me Than thousands of gold and silver. י JOD

Proverbs 10:1

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

Proverbs 16:16

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

Proverbs 17:16

Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, Seeing he hath no understanding?

Proverbs 18:15

The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; And the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.

Proverbs 9:8

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: Reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.

Isaiah 55:1

Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Matthew 13:44

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Matthew 13:46

and having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

Matthew 16:26

For what shall a man be profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and forfeit his life? or what shall a man give in exchange for his life?

Acts 20:23

save that the Holy Ghost testifieth unto me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

Hebrews 11:26

accounting the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked unto the recompense of reward.

Revelation 12:11

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life even unto death.

Revelation 3:18

I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and that the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.