Proverbs 2:2

A Conservative Version

so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding,

Cross References

Proverbs 23:12

Apply thy heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Proverbs 18:1

He who desires to separate himself seeks excuses, and rages against all sound wisdom.

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to number our days, that we may get us a heart of wisdom.

Matthew 13:9

He who has ears, let him hear.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul shall live. And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the faithful holy things (LXX/NT) of David.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he who sees sleep with his eyes neither day nor night),

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. [There is] a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned about, and my heart [was set] to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the reason [of things], and to know that wickedness is folly, and that foolishness is madness.

Acts 17:11

But these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, who received the word with all willingness, examining the Scriptures daily, if it has these things this way.

Proverbs 2:3

yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding,

Proverbs 4:1

Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.

Proverbs 4:20

My son, attend to my words. Incline thine ear to my sayings.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who would destroy his own soul does it.