Proverbs 4:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ The beginning of wisdom is this: get wisdom, and whatever else you get, get insight.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: And with all thy getting get understanding.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ The beginning of Wisdom is: get Wisdom (skillful and godly Wisdom)! [For skillful and godly Wisdom is the principal thing.] And with all you have gotten, get understanding (discernment, comprehension, and interpretation). [James 1:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; Yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

Common English Bible

⁷ The beginning of wisdom: Get wisdom! Get understanding before anything else.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ The beginning of wisdom is to obtain wisdom, and, with all that you possess, to acquire prudence.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.

Proverbs 4:7 Références croisées

2 Chronicles 1:10

Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can rule this great people of yours?”

Psalm 119:104

Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.

Proverbs 16:16

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

Proverbs 2:4

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

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.

Proverbs 23:23

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

Proverbs 4:5

Get wisdom; get insight: do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 8:23

Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth.

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.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to the one who possesses it.

Luke 10:42

but few things are needed—indeed only one. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life is being demanded of you. And the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’

Philippians 3:8

More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ