Proverbs 23:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Cross References

Proverbs 22:17

Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.

Proverbs 23:11

For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.

Proverbs 23:13

Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.

Proverbs 23:19

Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

Matthew 13:52

And he said to them, For this reason every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like the owner of a house, who gives out from his store things new and old.