Proverbs 2:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures—

Cross References

Genesis 26:32

That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water!”

Job 3:21

who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more than for hidden treasures;

Psalm 119:127

Truly I love your commandments more than gold, more than fine gold.

Psalm 119:14

I delight in the way of your decrees as much as in all riches.

Psalm 119:72

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Proverbs 16:16

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 2:3

if you indeed cry out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,

Proverbs 23:23

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

Proverbs 4:7

The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight.

Proverbs 8:17

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Matthew 13:44

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and reburied; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or fields for my name’s sake will receive a hundredfold and will inherit eternal life.

Luke 16:8

And his master commended the dishonest manager because he had acted shrewdly, for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.