Proverbs 10:21

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Cross References

Job 23:12

I haven't gone back from the mitzvah of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Psalm 37:30

The mouth of the righteous talks of wisdom. His tongue speaks justice.

Proverbs 1:29

because they hated knowledge, and didn't choose the fear of the LORD.

Proverbs 1:31

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

Proverbs 1:32

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Proverbs 10:11

The mouth of the righteous is a spring of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Proverbs 15:4

A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but deceit in it crushes the spirit.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

Proverbs 17:16

Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, seeing he has no understanding?

Proverbs 5:12

and say, *How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

Proverbs 5:2

that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

Proverbs 5:23

He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

Proverbs 6:32

He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

Isaiah 5:13

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, the LORD, God Tzeva'ot.

Jeremiah 3:15

and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, who shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no Kohen to me. Because you have forgotten your God's law, I will also forget your children.

Matthew 12:35

The good man out of his good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings out evil things.

Matthew 13:19

When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom, and doesn't understand it, the evil one comes, and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Romans 1:28

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

1 Peter 5:2

Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, exercising the oversight, not under compulsion, but voluntarily, not for dishonest gain, but willingly;