Proverbs 4:7

New American Bible - revised edition

The beginning of wisdom is: get wisdom; whatever else you get, get understanding.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 1:10

Give me, therefore, wisdom and knowledge to govern this people, for otherwise who could rule this vast people of yours?”

Psalm 119:104

Through your precepts I gain understanding; therefore I hate all false ways.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is preferable to silver.

Proverbs 2:4

If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out,

Proverbs 21:6

Trying to get rich by lying is chasing a bubble over deadly snares.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth and do not sell: wisdom, instruction, understanding!

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom, get understanding! Do not forget or turn aside from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 8:23

From of old I was formed, at the first, before the earth.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

those all alone with no companion, with neither child nor sibling—with no end to all their toil, and no satisfaction from riches. For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good things? This also is vanity and a bad business.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For the protection of wisdom is as the protection of money; and knowledge is profitable because wisdom gives life to those who possess it.

Luke 10:42

There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her.”

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?’

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I even consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things and I consider them so much rubbish, that I may gain Christ