Proverbs 22:17

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The words of the wise: Incline your ear and hear my words and apply your mind to my teaching,

Cross References

Psalm 78:1

Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth.

Psalm 90:12

So teach us to count our days that we may gain a wise heart.

Proverbs 1:3

for gaining instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;

Proverbs 23:12

Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 24:23

These also are sayings of the wise: Partiality in judging is not good.

Proverbs 3:1

My child, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments,

Ecclesiastes 12:11

The sayings of the wise are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings that are given by one shepherd.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

I turned my mind to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the sum of things and to know that wickedness is folly and that foolishness is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to see the business that is done on earth, how one’s eyes see sleep neither day nor night,

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I observed, applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while one person exercises authority over another to the other’s hurt.

Isaiah 55:3

Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant, my steadfast, sure love for David.

Matthew 17:5

While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, the Beloved; with him I am well pleased; listen to him!”