Proverbs 4:7

Modern English Version

The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and with all your possessions, get understanding.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 1:10

Now give wisdom and knowledge to me so that I might know how to go before this people, for who can judge this great people of Yours?”

Psalm 119:104

Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding than silver!

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures,

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and sell it not; also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom; get understanding; do not forget or turn away from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 8:23

Ages ago I was established, at the beginning, before the earth existed.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person who is alone, having neither son nor brother; there is not an end to all his toil, and his eyes are not satisfied with riches. He asks, “For whom do I labor and cause my life to lack good things?” This also is vanity and a burdensome task.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For the protective shadow of wisdom is like the protective shadow of silver, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of the one who possesses it.

Luke 10:42

But one thing is needed. And Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken from her.”

Luke 12:20

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This night your soul will be required of you. Then whose will those things be which you have provided?’

Philippians 3:8

Yes, certainly, I count everything as loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have forfeited the loss of all things and count them as rubbish that I may gain Christ,