Proverbs 2:5

Good News Translation

If you do, you will know what it means to fear the Lord and you will succeed in learning about God.

Cross References

Job 28:28

God said to us humans, “To be wise, you must have reverence for the Lord. To understand, you must turn from evil.”

Proverbs 1:7

To have knowledge, you must first have reverence for the Lord. Stupid people have no respect for wisdom and refuse to learn.

Proverbs 28:7

Young people who obey the law are intelligent. Those who make friends with good-for-nothings are a disgrace to their parents.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me; whoever looks for me can find me.

Proverbs 9:10

To be wise you must first have reverence for the Lord. If you know the Holy One, you have understanding.

Isaiah 33:6

and give stability to the nation. He always protects his people and gives them wisdom and knowledge. Their greatest treasure is their reverence for the Lord.

Jeremiah 24:7

I will give them the desire to know that I am the Lord. Then they will be my people, and I will be their God, because they will return to me with all their heart.

Jeremiah 31:34

None of them will have to teach a neighbor to know the Lord, because all will know me, from the least to the greatest. I will forgive their sins and I will no longer remember their wrongs. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 9:24

If any want to boast, they should boast that they know and understand me, because my love is constant, and I do what is just and right. These are the things that please me. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Hosea 6:3

Let us try to know the Lord. He will come to us as surely as the day dawns, as surely as the spring rains fall upon the earth.”

Matthew 11:27

“My Father has given me all things. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

Luke 10:22

“My Father has given me all things. No one knows who the Son is except the Father, and no one knows who the Father is except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.”

John 17:3

And eternal life means to know you, the only true God, and to know Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

1 John 5:20

We know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we know the true God. We live in union with the true God—in union with his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and this is eternal life.