Proverbs 17:16

Proverbs 17:16
Why is there money in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, since he has no understanding?

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Proverbs 4:5
Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:6
Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom is supreme. Get wisdom. Yes, though it costs all your possessions, get understanding.

Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Proverbs 2:2
so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

Proverbs 2:3
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

Proverbs 2:4
if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Isaiah 55:1
“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Proverbs 1:2
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

Matthew 13:44
“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

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Proverbs 15:32
He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who listens to reproof gets understanding.

Proverbs 8:5
You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!

Proverbs 1:22
“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?

Proverbs 1:23
Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.

Jeremiah 5:21
‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:

Hosea 4:11
Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away understanding.

Hosea 7:11
“Ephraim is like an easily deceived dove, without understanding. They call to Egypt. They go to Assyria.

John 3:20
For everyone who does evil hates the light and doesn’t come to the light, lest his works would be exposed.

Romans 1:28
Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

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Proverbs 18:15
The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

Proverbs 19:8
He who gets wisdom loves his own soul. He who keeps understanding shall find good.

Proverbs 18:1
A man who isolates himself pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

Proverbs 18:2
A fool has no delight in understanding, but only in revealing his own opinion.

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Proverbs 17:18
A man void of understanding strikes hands, and becomes collateral in the presence of his neighbor.

Proverbs 17:19
He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

Proverbs 17:20
One who has a perverse heart doesn’t find prosperity, and one who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

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Proverbs 17:24
Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

Matthew 11:19
The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by her children.”

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Proverbs 17:8
A bribe is a precious stone in the eyes of him who gives it; wherever he turns, he prospers.

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Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man receives a bribe in secret, to pervert the ways of justice.

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