Proverbs 8:5

New American Bible - revised edition

You naive ones, gain prudence, you fools, gain sense.

Cross References

Psalm 19:7

From one end of the heavens it comes forth; its course runs through to the other; nothing escapes its heat.

Psalm 94:8

Understand, you stupid people! You fools, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, you naive ones, will you love naivete,

Proverbs 1:32

For the straying of the naive kills them, the smugness of fools destroys them.

Proverbs 1:4

That resourcefulness may be imparted to the naive, knowledge and discretion to the young.

Proverbs 3:35

The wise will possess glory, but fools will bear shame.

Proverbs 8:12

I, Wisdom, dwell with prudence, and useful knowledge I have.

Proverbs 8:4

“To you, O people, I call; my appeal is to you mortals.

Proverbs 9:4

“Let whoever is naive turn in here; to any who lack sense I say,

Isaiah 42:13

The Lord goes forth like a warrior, like a man of war he stirs up his fury; He shouts out his battle cry, against his enemies he shows his might:

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may obtain forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been consecrated by faith in me.’

1 Corinthians 1:28

and God chose the lowly and despised of the world, those who count for nothing, to reduce to nothing those who are something,