Proverbs 4:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: Yea, with all thou hast gotten get understanding.

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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, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

Psalm 119:104

Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way. נ NUN

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 2:4

If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures;

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a vapour driven to and fro; they that seek them seek death.

Proverbs 23:23

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

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth:

Proverbs 8:23

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Or ever the earth was.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom is a defence, even as money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserveth the life of him that hath it.

Luke 10:42

but one thing is needful: for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

Philippians 3:8

Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may gain Christ,