Proverbs 1:7

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.

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Psalms 111:10
The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.

Job 28:28
And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 12:13
This is the last word. All has been said. Have fear of God and keep his laws; because this is right for every man.

Proverbs 8:13
The fear of the Lord is seen in hating evil: pride, a high opinion of oneself, the evil way, and the false tongue, are unpleasing to me.

Proverbs 3:7
Put no high value on your wisdom: let the fear of the Lord be before you, and keep yourself from evil:

Proverbs 16:6
By mercy and good faith evil-doing is taken away: and by the fear of the Lord men are turned away from evil.

Proverbs 23:17
Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;

Acts 9:31
And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.

Proverbs 14:27
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.

Psalms 112:1
Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

Psalms 31:19
O how great is your grace, which you have put in store for your worshippers, and which you have made clear to those who had faith in you, before the sons of men!

Proverbs 24:21
My son, go in fear of the Lord and the king: have nothing to do with those who are in high positions:

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Proverbs 9:10
The fear of the Lord is the start of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One gives a wise mind

Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the Lord is the teaching of wisdom; and a low opinion of oneself goes before honour.

Isaiah 33:6
And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth.

Psalms 25:12
If a man has the fear of the Lord, the Lord will be his teacher in the way of his pleasure.

Proverbs 10:27
The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.

Luke 1:50
His mercy is for all generations in whom is the fear of him.

1 Samuel 12:14
If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:

Psalms 2:11
Give worship to the Lord with fear, kissing his feet and giving him honour,

Psalms 86:11
Make your way clear to me, O Lord; I will go on my way in your faith: let my heart be glad in the fear of your name.

Psalms 103:13
As a father has pity on his children, so the Lord has pity on his worshippers.

Proverbs 24:23
These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.

Acts 10:22
And they said, Cornelius, a captain, an upright and God-fearing man, respected by all the nation of the Jews, had word from God by an angel to send for you to his house, and to give hearing to your words.

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Proverbs 1:22
How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?

Proverbs 15:5
A foolish man puts no value on his father's training; but he who has respect for teaching has good sense.

Proverbs 18:2
A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.

Job 21:14
Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

Matthew 13:14
And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

Romans 1:22
Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,

Psalms 10:4
The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.

Psalms 94:8
Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

Proverbs 13:1
A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.

Proverbs 15:32
He who will not be controlled by training has no respect for his soul, but he who gives ear to teaching will get wisdom.

Isaiah 19:11
The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?

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Proverbs 1:28
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:

Proverbs 1:29
For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

Proverbs 1:30
They had no desire for my teaching, and my words of protest were as nothing to them.

Proverbs 5:12
And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;

Psalms 50:17
Seeing that you have no desire for my teaching, turning your back on my words.

2 Chronicles 36:16
But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

2 Chronicles 30:10
So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of.

Proverbs 1:24
Because your ears were shut to my voice; no one gave attention to my out-stretched hand;

Proverbs 1:25
You were not controlled by my guiding, and would have nothing to do with my sharp words:

Jeremiah 32:33
And they have been turning their backs and not their faces to me: and though I was their teacher, getting up early and teaching them, their ears were not open to teaching.

Zechariah 7:11
But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;

Acts 13:41
See, you doubters, have wonder and come to your end; for I will do a thing in your days to which you will not give belief, even if it is made clear to you.

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Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;

Proverbs 2:2
So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;

Proverbs 2:3
Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;

Proverbs 2:4
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;

Proverbs 2:5
Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.

Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:

Proverbs 1:8
My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:

Proverbs 1:9
For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

Proverbs 3:13
Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

Proverbs 4:7
The first sign of wisdom is to get wisdom; go, give all you have to get true knowledge.

Proverbs 7:3
Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

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Isaiah 11:2
And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

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John 3:18
The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.

John 3:19
And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

John 3:20
The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

John 3:21
But he whose life is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his acts have been done by the help of God.

2 Thessalonians 2:10
And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation.

2 Thessalonians 2:11
And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false:

2 Thessalonians 2:12
So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.

John 8:45
But because I say what is true, you have no belief in me.

John 8:46
Which of you is able truly to say that I am a sinner? If I say what is true, why have you no belief in me?

John 8:47
He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

2 Timothy 4:4
And shutting their ears to what is true, will be turned away to belief in foolish stories.

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Deuteronomy 4:6
So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.

Psalms 19:9
The fear of the Lord is clean, and has no end; the decisions of the Lord are true and full of righteousness.

Jeremiah 8:9
The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?

Colossians 1:9
For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit,

Psalms 19:7
The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

Psalms 119:98
Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever.

Psalms 119:99
I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.

Psalms 119:100
I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.

Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the man of good sense makes his way clear; but the unwise behaviour of the foolish is deceit.

John 7:17
If any man is ready to do God's pleasure he will have knowledge of the teaching and of where it comes from--from God or from myself.

2 Timothy 3:15
And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.

James 3:13
Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

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Genesis 20:11
And Abraham said, Because it seemed to me that there was no fear of God in this place, and that they might put me to death because of my wife.

Genesis 22:12
And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.

Genesis 42:18
And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:

Nehemiah 5:15
But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.

Exodus 20:20
And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin.

Deuteronomy 6:2
So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,

Leviticus 25:17
And do no wrong, one to another, but let the fear of your God be before you; for I am the Lord your God.

1 Samuel 12:24
Only go in the fear of the Lord, and be his true servants with all your heart, keeping in mind what great things he has done for you.

2 Chronicles 19:7
So now let the fear of the Lord be in you; do your work with care; for in the Lord our God there is no evil, or respect for high position, or taking of payment to do wrong.

Nehemiah 5:9
And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?

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Proverbs 7:22
The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;

Proverbs 16:22
Wisdom is a fountain of life to him who has it; but the punishment of the foolish is their foolish behaviour.

Psalms 107:17
Foolish men, because of their sins, and because of their wrongdoing, are troubled;

Proverbs 9:18
But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

Proverbs 12:15
The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.

Proverbs 13:19
To get one's desire is sweet to the soul, but to give up evil is disgusting to the foolish.

1 Samuel 25:25
Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.

Proverbs 14:9
In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.

Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise keep knowledge, but the heart of the foolish man is not right.

Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.

Proverbs 27:22
Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.

Proverbs 28:26
He whose faith is in himself is foolish; but everyone walking wisely will be kept safe.

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Psalms 14:1
To the chief music-maker. Of David. The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

Romans 1:28
And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;

Proverbs 8:5
Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.

Isaiah 27:11
When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.

Jeremiah 4:22
For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.

Hosea 4:6
Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.

Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of evil no knowledge? they take my people for food as they would take bread; they make no prayer to the Lord.

Psalms 92:6
A man without sense has no knowledge of this; and a foolish man may not take it in.

Proverbs 13:13
He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.

Proverbs 17:16
How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

Matthew 13:19
When the word of the kingdom comes to anyone, and the sense of it is not clear to him, then the Evil One comes, and quickly takes away that which was put in his heart. He is the seed dropped by the wayside.

Romans 3:11
Not one who has the knowledge of what is right, not one who is a searcher after God;

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Proverbs 19:23
The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.

Proverbs 15:16
Better is a little with the fear of the Lord, than great wealth together with trouble.

Proverbs 22:4
The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.

Proverbs 31:30
Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.

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Proverbs 14:26
For him in whose heart is the fear of the Lord there is strong hope: and his children will have a safe place.

2 Corinthians 7:1
Because God, then, will give us such rewards, dear brothers, let us make ourselves clean from all evil of flesh and spirit, and become completely holy in the fear of God.

Psalms 147:11
The Lord takes pleasure in his worshippers, and in those whose hope is in his mercy.

Isaiah 50:10
Who among you has the fear of the Lord, giving ear to the voice of his servant who has been walking in the dark and has no light? Let him put his faith in the name of the Lord, looking to his God for support.

Acts 10:35
But in every nation, the man who has fear of him and does righteousness is pleasing to him.

Ephesians 5:21
Letting yourselves be ruled by one another in the fear of Christ.

Psalms 34:11
Come, children, give attention to me; I will be your teacher in the fear of the Lord.

Malachi 3:16
Then those in whom was the fear of the Lord had talk together: and the Lord gave ear, and it was recorded in a book to be kept in mind before him, for those who had the fear of the Lord and gave thought to his name.

Acts 10:2
A serious-minded man, fearing God with all his family; he gave much money to the poor, and made prayer to God at all times.

Romans 3:18
There is no fear of God before their eyes.

1 Peter 2:17
Have respect for all, loving the brothers, fearing God, honouring the king.

Haggai 1:12
Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people, gave ear to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him, and the people were in fear before the Lord.

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Proverbs 23:9
Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.

1 Kings 12:13
And the king gave them a rough answer, giving no attention to the suggestion of the old men;

Proverbs 14:7
Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.

Proverbs 26:4
Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.

Acts 17:18
And some of those who were supporters of the theories of the Epicureans and the Stoics, had a meeting with him. And some said, What is this talker of foolish words saying? And others, He seems to be a preacher of strange gods: because he was preaching of Jesus and his coming back from the dead.

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Proverbs 13:16
A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.

Proverbs 12:23
A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.

Proverbs 14:3
In the mouth of the foolish man is a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will keep them safe.

Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

Proverbs 29:11
A foolish man lets out all his wrath, but a wise man keeps it back quietly.

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Proverbs 11:29
The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.

Proverbs 10:21
The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.

Proverbs 17:10
A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.

Proverbs 17:12
It is better to come face to face with a bear whose young ones have been taken away than with a foolish man acting foolishly.

Proverbs 17:28
Even the foolish man, when he keeps quiet, is taken to be wise: when his lips are shut he is credited with good sense.

Proverbs 20:3
It is an honour for a man to keep from fighting, but the foolish are ever at war.

Proverbs 22:15
Foolish ways are deep-seated in the heart of a child, but the rod of punishment will send them far from him.

Proverbs 27:3
A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.

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Proverbs 5:13
I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!

Zechariah 7:12
And they made their hearts like the hardest stone, so that they might not give ear to the law and the words which the Lord of armies had said by the earlier prophets: and there came great wrath from the Lord of armies.

Zechariah 7:13
And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:

Romans 2:21
You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?

1 Thessalonians 4:8
Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

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Proverbs 1:4
To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:

Proverbs 1:5
(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)

Proverbs 1:6
To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.

Proverbs 10:8
The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.

Proverbs 1:1
The wise sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel.

Colossians 1:10
Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

James 3:15
This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

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Job 42:5
Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.

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Job 42:6
For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

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Proverbs 17:7
Fair words are not to be looked for from a foolish man, much less are false lips in a ruler.

Proverbs 17:21
He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.

Proverbs 26:1
Like snow in summer and rain when the grain is being cut, so honour is not natural for the foolish.

Proverbs 30:22
A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

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Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are twisted.

Proverbs 19:3
By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

Proverbs 21:20
There is a store of great value in the house of the wise, but it is wasted by the foolish man.

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Isaiah 11:3
And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:

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