Proverbs 6:23

English Standard Version 2016

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Cross References

Psalm 119:105

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

2 Peter 1:19

And we have the prophetic word more fully confirmed, to which you will do well to pay attention as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts,

Psalm 19:8

the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes;

Proverbs 15:31

The ear that listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.

Proverbs 4:13

Keep hold of instruction; do not let go; guard her, for she is your life.

Proverbs 4:4

he taught me and said to me, “Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments, and live.

Jeremiah 21:8

“And to this people you shall say: ‘Thus says the Lord: Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.

Proverbs 29:15

The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Proverbs 15:24

The path of life leads upward for the prudent, that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.

Psalm 141:5

Let a righteous man strike me—it is a kindness; let him rebuke me—it is oil for my head; let my head not refuse it. Yet my prayer is continually against their evil deeds.

Revelation 2:5

Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.

Isaiah 8:20

To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no dawn.

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called blessed.

Proverbs 5:12

and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!

Leviticus 19:17

“You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason frankly with your neighbor, lest you incur sin because of him.

Genesis 39:8

But he refused and said to his master’s wife, “Behold, because of me my master has no concern about anything in the house, and he has put everything that he has in my charge.

Psalm 119:130

The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.

Proverbs 10:17

Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who rejects reproof leads others astray.

Ecclesiastes 7:5

It is better for a man to hear the rebuke of the wise than to hear the song of fools.

Ecclesiastes 7:26

And I find something more bitter than death: the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and whose hands are fetters. He who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is taken by her.

Ezekiel 20:11

I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live.