Proverbs 4:7

A Conservative Version

Wisdom [is] the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense. But the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth, and do not sell it, [yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Proverbs 16:16

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

Philippians 3:8

But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain C

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?

Psalm 119:104

Through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every FALSE way.

Luke 10:42

but one thing is necessary, and Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vapor driven to and fro by those who seek death.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one man who is alone, and he has not a second, yea, he has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end of all his labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [he says], do I labor, and deprive my soul of

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom, get understanding. Do not forget, nor decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 8:23

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was,

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?

Proverbs 2:4

if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,