Proverbs 4:7 - The Scriptures 1998

⁷ “The beginning of wisdom is: Get wisdom! And with all your getting, 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.

Proverbs 4:7 Cross References

2 Chronicles 1:10

“Now give me wisdom and knowledge, so that I go out and come in before this people. For who is able to rightly rule this great people of Yours?”

Psalm 119:104

From Your orders I get understanding; Therefore I have hated every false way.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is preferable to silver.

Proverbs 2:4

If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hidden treasures,

Proverbs 21:6

Gaining treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapour, heading for death.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth and do not sell it – Wisdom and discipline and understanding.

Proverbs 4:5

“Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, and do not turn away From the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 8:23

“I was set up ages ago, at the first, Before the earth ever was.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom protects as silver protects, but the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to those who have it.

Luke 10:42

but one only is necessary, and Miryam has chosen the good portion, which shall not be taken away from her.”

Luke 12:20

“But Elohim said to him, ‘You mindless one! This night your life shall be demanded from you. And who shall own what you have prepared?’

Philippians 3:8

What is more, I even count all to be loss because of the excellence of the knowledge of Messiah יהושע  my Master, for whom I have suffered the loss of all, and count them as refuse, in order to gain Messiah,