Proverbs 2:4

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

If you seek [Wisdom] as for silver and search for skillful and godly Wisdom as for hidden treasures,

Cross References

Genesis 26:32

That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, We have found water!

Job 3:21

Who long and wait for death, but it comes not, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures,

Psalm 119:127

Therefore I love Your commandments more than [resplendent] gold, yes, more than [perfectly] refined gold.

Psalm 119:14

I have rejoiced in the way of Your testimonies as much as in all riches.

Psalm 119:72

The law from Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, even than much fine gold; they are sweeter also than honey and drippings from the honeycomb.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get skillful and godly Wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. [Prov. 8:10, 19.]

Proverbs 2:3

Yes, if you cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

Proverbs 23:23

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

Proverbs 4:7

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.]

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me early and diligently shall find me. [I Sam. 2:30; Ps. 91:14; John 14:21; James 1:5.]

Ecclesiastes 4:8

Here is one alone–no one with him; he neither has child nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his labor, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, neither does he ask, For whom do I labor and deprive myself of good? This is also vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility); yes, it is a painful effort and an unhappy business. [Prov. 27:20; I John 2:16.]

Matthew 13:44

The kingdom of heaven is like something precious buried in a field, which a man found and hid again; then in his joy he goes and sells all he has and buys that field.

Matthew 19:29

And anyone and everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or lands for My name's sake will receive many [even a hundred] times more and will inherit eternal life.

Luke 16:8

And [his] master praised the dishonest (unjust) manager for acting shrewdly and prudently; for the sons of this age are shrewder and more prudent and wiser in [relation to] their own generation [to their own age and kind] than are the sons of light.