Proverbs 4:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 1:10

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people: for who is able to be the judge of this great people of yours?

Psalm 119:104

Through your orders I get wisdom; for this reason I am a hater of every false way.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! and to get knowledge is more to be desired than silver.

Proverbs 2:4

If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

Proverbs 21:6

He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

Proverbs 23:23

Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom, get true knowledge; keep it in memory, do not be turned away from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 8:23

From eternal days I was given my place, from the birth of time, before the earth was.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.

Luke 10:42

Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

Philippians 3:8

Yes truly, and I am ready to give up all things for the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, which is more than all: for whom I have undergone the loss of all things, and to me they are less than nothing, so that I may have Christ as my reward,