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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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?

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.

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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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 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!

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

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

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

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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.

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:

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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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 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.

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

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

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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:

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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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:

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

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 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 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 27:22
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.

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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 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.

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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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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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.

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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 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.

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?

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?

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

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?

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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