Proverbs 8:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it.

Cross References

Proverbs 1:22

“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Proverbs 1:4

to teach shrewdness to the simple, knowledge and prudence to the young—

Psalm 19:7

The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the decrees of the Lord are sure, making wise the simple;

1 Corinthians 1:28

God chose what is low and despised in the world, things that are not, to abolish things that are,

Isaiah 42:13

The Lord goes forth like a soldier; like a warrior he stirs up his fury; he cries out; he shouts aloud; he shows himself mighty against his foes.

Proverbs 9:4

“You who are simple, turn in here!” To those without sense she says,

Psalm 94:8

Understand, O dullest of the people; fools, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 1:32

For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 3:35

The wise will inherit honor, but stubborn fools, disgrace.

Proverbs 8:4

“To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all who live.

Proverbs 8:12

I, wisdom, live with prudence, and I attain knowledge and discretion.