Proverbs 19:20
Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
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Proverbs 19:20
Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
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Numbers 23:10
Who is able to take the measure of the dust of Jacob or the number of the thousands of Israel? May my death be the death of the upright and my last end like his!
Deuteronomy 32:29
If only they were wise, if only this was clear to them, and they would give thought to their future!
Psalms 37:38
But as for the sinners, they will be cut off together; the end of the wrongdoers is destruction.
Psalms 73:17
Till I went into God's holy place, and saw the end of the evil-doers.
Psalms 90:12
So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Psalms 90:14
In the morning give us your mercy in full measure; so that we may have joy and delight all our days.
Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
Luke 16:19
Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
Luke 16:20
And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
Luke 16:21
Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.
Luke 16:22
And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
Luke 16:23
And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.
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Judges 8:1
And the men of Ephraim came and said to him, Why did you not send for us when you went to war against Midian? And they said sharp and angry words to him.
Judges 8:2
And he said to them, What have I done in comparison with you? Is not that which Ephraim took up after the grape-cutting better than all the grapes which Abiezer got in from the grape-cutting?
Judges 8:3
God has given into your hands the chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you? And when he said this, their feeling about him became kinder.
Proverbs 12:16
A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.
Proverbs 13:10
The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.
Proverbs 17:14
The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.
Proverbs 20:18
Every purpose is put into effect by wise help: and by wise guiding make war.
Proverbs 25:8
Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?
Luke 14:28
For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?
Luke 14:29
For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,
Luke 14:30
And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.
Luke 14:31
Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
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1 Chronicles 21:11
So Gad came to David and said to him, The Lord says, Take whichever you will:
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2 Chronicles 10:6
Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?
Job 12:12
Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.
Job 12:13
With him there is wisdom and strength; power and knowledge are his.
Job 32:7
I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.
Proverbs 27:10
Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.
Jeremiah 42:2
And said to Jeremiah the prophet, Let our request come before you, and make prayer for us to the Lord your God, even for this small band of us; for we are only a small band out of what was a great number, as your eyes may see:
Jeremiah 42:3
That the Lord your God may make clear to us the way in which we are to go and what we are to do.
Jeremiah 42:4
Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.
Jeremiah 42:5
Then they said to Jeremiah, May the Lord be a true witness against us in good faith, if we do not do everything which the Lord your God sends you to say to us.
Jeremiah 42:20
For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.
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Psalms 16:7
I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.
Psalms 73:24
Your wisdom will be my guide, and later you will put me in a place of honour.
Psalms 107:11
Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:
Ecclesiastes 8:2
I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
Zechariah 14:7
And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.
Revelation 3:18
If you are wise you will get from me gold tested by fire, so that you may have true wealth; and white robes to put on, so that your shame may not be seen; and oil for your eyes, so that you may see.
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2 Samuel 17:14
Then Absalom and all the men of Israel said, Hushai's suggestion is better than that of Ahithophel. For it was the purpose of the Lord to make the wise designs of Ahithophel without effect, so that the Lord might send evil on Absalom.
1 Kings 12:8
But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him:
Job 2:10
And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.
Proverbs 1:2
To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
Proverbs 1:3
To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
Proverbs 1:4
To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
Proverbs 5:1
My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
Proverbs 6:23
For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
Proverbs 13:20
Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.
Isaiah 30:1
Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:
Hebrews 12:25
See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?
2 Peter 2:20
For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first.
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Proverbs 2:6
For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
Proverbs 2:7
He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
Proverbs 2:8
He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.
Proverbs 2:9
Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
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Proverbs 4:10
Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.
Jeremiah 9:20
But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.
John 3:32
He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true.
John 3:33
He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.
1 Timothy 1:15
It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:
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Psalms 141:5
Let the upright give me punishment; and let the god-fearing man put me in the right way; but I will not let the oil of sinners come on my head: when they do evil I will give myself to prayer.
Proverbs 9:8
Do not say sharp words to a man of pride, or he will have hate for you; make them clear to a wise man, and you will be dear to him.
Titus 1:13
This witness is true. So say sharp words to them so that they may come to the right faith,
Titus 2:15
On all these points give teaching and help, and make clear what is right with all authority. Let all men give you honour.
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Proverbs 16:25
There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
Proverbs 19:22
The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.
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Proverbs 19:16
He who keeps the law keeps his soul; but death will be the fate of him who takes no note of the word.
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Proverbs 19:26
He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
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Psalms 119:11
I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
Proverbs 4:1
Give ear, my sons, to the teaching of a father; give attention so that you may have knowledge:
Proverbs 7:4
Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:
Proverbs 8:32
Give ear to me then, my sons: for happy are those who keep my ways.
Proverbs 8:33
Take my teaching and be wise; do not let it go.
Proverbs 8:36
But he who does evil to me, does wrong to his soul: all my haters are in love with death.
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.
Proverbs 22:17
Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.
Isaiah 55:3
Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.
Luke 8:15
And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
1 Thessalonians 4:1
And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.
Hebrews 2:1
For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.
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Psalms 32:9
Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ...
Isaiah 28:9
To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?
Isaiah 28:10
For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.
Isaiah 28:11
No, but with broken talk, and with a strange tongue, he will give his word to this people:
Isaiah 28:12
To whom he said, This is the rest, give rest to him who is tired; and by this you may get new strength; but they would not give ear.
Isaiah 42:23
Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?
Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.
Jeremiah 6:8
Undergo teaching, O Jerusalem, or my soul will be turned away from you, and I will make you a waste, an unpeopled land.
Jeremiah 6:9
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Everything will be taken from the rest of Israel as the last grapes are taken from the vine; let your hand be turned to the small branches, like one pulling off grapes.
Jeremiah 6:10
To whom am I to give word, witnessing so that they may take note? see, their ears are stopped, and they are not able to give attention: see, the word of the Lord has been a cause of shame to them, they have no delight in it.
Jeremiah 9:12
Who is the wise man able to see this? who is he to whom the word of the Lord has come, so that he may make it clear? why is the land given to destruction and burned up like a waste place, so that no one goes through?
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.
Jeremiah 35:13
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord.
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Ecclesiastes 4:13
A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.
Jeremiah 38:15
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I give you the answer to your question, will you not certainly put me to death? and if I make a suggestion to you, you will not give it a hearing.
Jeremiah 38:16
So King Zedekiah gave his oath to Jeremiah secretly, saying, By the living Lord, who gave us our life, I will not put you to death, or give you up to these men who are desiring to take your life.
Jeremiah 38:17
Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, These are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel: If you go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then you will have life, and the town will not be burned with fire, and you and your family will be kept from death:
Jeremiah 38:18
But if you do not go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then this town will be given into the hands of the Chaldaeans and they will put it on fire, and you will not get away from them.
Jeremiah 38:19
And King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, I am troubled on account of the Jews who have gone over to the Chaldaeans, for fear that they may give me up to them and they will put me to shame.
Jeremiah 38:20
But Jeremiah said, They will not give you up: be guided now by the word of the Lord as I have given it to you, and it will be well for you, and you will keep your life.
Jeremiah 38:21
But if you do not go out, this is what the Lord has made clear to me:
Jeremiah 38:22
See, all the rest of the women in the house of the king of Judah will be taken out to the king of Babylon's captains, and these women will say, Your nearest friends have been false to you and have got the better of you: they have made your feet go deep into the wet earth, and they are turned away back from you.
Jeremiah 38:23
And they will take all your wives and your children out to the Chaldaeans: and you will not get away out of their hands, but will be taken by the hands of the king of Babylon: and this town will be burned with fire.
Jeremiah 38:24
Then Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, Let no man have knowledge of these words, and you will not be put to death.
Jeremiah 38:25
But if it comes to the ears of the rulers that I have been talking with you, and they come and say to you, Give us word now of what you have said to the king and what the king said to you, keeping nothing back and we will not put you to death;
Jeremiah 38:26
Then you are to say to them, I made my request to the king, that he would not send me back to my death in Jonathan's house.
Jeremiah 38:27
Then all the rulers came to Jeremiah, questioning him: and he gave them an answer in the words the king had given him orders to say. So they said nothing more to him; for the thing was not made public.
Jeremiah 38:28
So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen till the day when Jerusalem was taken.
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Ezekiel 2:8
But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.
Ezekiel 3:1
And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 3:2
And, on my opening my mouth, he made me take the roll as food.
Ezekiel 3:3
And he said to me, Son of man, let your stomach make a meal of it and let your inside be full of this roll which I am giving you. Then I took it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.
Ezekiel 3:10
Then he said to me, Son of man, take into your heart all my words which I am about to say to you, and let your ears be open to them.
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Proverbs 22:24
Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:
Luke 14:32
Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace.
Acts 6:1
Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.
Acts 6:2
And the Apostles sent for all the disciples and said, It is not right for us to give up preaching the word of God in order to make distribution of food.
Acts 6:3
Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.
Acts 6:4
Then we will give all our time to prayer and the teaching of the word.
Acts 6:5
And this saying was pleasing to all of them: and they made selection of Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas of Antioch, who had become a Jew:
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