Proverbs 6:23

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light, and corrective discipline is the way to life.

Cross References

2 Peter 1:19

We also have the prophetic word strongly confirmed, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place,  until the day dawns  and the morning star  rises in your hearts.

Proverbs 15:31

One who  listens to life-giving rebukes will be at home among the wise.

Proverbs 4:13

Hold on to instruction; don’t let go. Guard it, for it is your life.

Proverbs 4:4

he taught me and said, ‘Your heart must hold on to my words. Keep my commands and live.

Jeremiah 21:8

‘But tell this people, “This is what the Lord says: Look, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.

Proverbs 29:15

A rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a youth left to himself is a disgrace to his mother.

Proverbs 15:24

For the prudent the path of life leads upwards, so that he may avoid going down to Sheol.

Revelation 2:5

Remember then how far you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first.   Otherwise, I will come to you   and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

Isaiah 8:20

Go to God’s instruction and testimony!  If they do not speak according to this word, there will be no dawn for them.

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life  to those who embrace her, and those who hold on to her are happy.

Proverbs 5:12

and you will say, ‘How I hated discipline, and how my heart despised correction.

Leviticus 19:17

‘Do not harbour hatred against your brother.  , Rebuke your neighbour directly, and you will not incur guilt because of him.

Genesis 39:8

But he refused. ‘Look,’ he said to his master’s wife, ‘with me here my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has put all that he owns under my authority.

Proverbs 10:17

The one who follows instruction is on the path to life, but the one who rejects correction goes astray.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

It is better to listen to rebuke from a wise person than to listen to the song of fools,

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find more bitter than death  the woman who is a trap:  her heart a net and her hands chains. The one who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner will be captured by her.

Ezekiel 20:11

Then I gave them my statutes and explained my ordinances to them #– #the person who does them will live by them.