Proverbs 2:2 - New International Version (Anglicised)

² turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding –

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thine heart to understanding;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Making your ear attentive to skillful and godly Wisdom and inclining and directing your heart and mind to understanding [applying all your powers to the quest for it];

American Standard Version (1901)

² So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

Common English Bible

² Turn your ear toward wisdom, and stretch your mind toward understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² so that your ears may listen to wisdom, then bend your heart in order to know prudence.

Proverbs 2:2 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 90:12

Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Proverbs 18:1

An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels.

Proverbs 2:3

indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding,

Proverbs 23:12

Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 4:1

Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.

Proverbs 4:20

My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words.

Proverbs 6:32

But a man who commits adultery has no sense; whoever does so destroys himself.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

So I turned my mind to understand, to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the madness of folly.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labour that is done on earth – people getting no sleep day or night –

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own hurt.

Isaiah 55:3

Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.

Matthew 13:9

Whoever has ears, let them hear.’

Acts 17:11

Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.