Proverbs 1:7

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

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Leviticus 25:17
You shall not wrong one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am Yahweh your God.

1 Samuel 12:24
Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

2 Chronicles 19:7
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”

Nehemiah 5:9
Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the nations, our enemies?

Psalms 86:11
Teach me your way, Yahweh. I will walk in your truth. Make my heart undivided to fear your name.

Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.

Acts 10:22
They said, “Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man and one who fears God, and well spoken of by all the nation of the Jews, was directed by a holy angel to invite you to his house, and to listen to what you say.”

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1 Samuel 12:14
If you will fear Yahweh, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Yahweh, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of Yahweh your God.

Psalms 31:19
Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take refuge in you, before the sons of men!

Psalms 103:13
Like a father has compassion on his children, so Yahweh has compassion on those who fear him.

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1 Samuel 25:25
Please don’t let my lord pay attention to this worthless fellow, Nabal, for as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name, and folly is with him; but I, your servant, didn’t see my lord’s young men whom you sent.

Proverbs 17:7
Excellent speech isn’t fitting for a fool, much less do lying lips fit a prince.

Proverbs 17:21
He who becomes the father of a fool grieves. The father of a fool has no joy.

Proverbs 26:1
Like snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honor is not fitting for a fool.

Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he is king, a fool when he is filled with food,

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1 Kings 12:13
The king answered the people roughly, and abandoned the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

Acts 17:18
Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

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Job 42:5
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you.

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Job 42:6
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”

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Psalms 2:11
Serve Yahweh with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

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Psalms 19:7
Yahweh’s law is perfect, restoring the soul. Yahweh’s covenant is sure, making wise the simple.

Psalms 119:98
Your commandments make me wiser than my enemies, for your commandments are always with me.

Psalms 119:99
I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

Psalms 119:100
I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts.

Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

Isaiah 11:3
His delight will be in the fear of Yahweh. He will not judge by the sight of his eyes, neither decide by the hearing of his ears;

John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it is from God or if I am speaking from myself.

Colossians 1:10
that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

2 Timothy 3:15
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

James 3:13
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

James 3:15
This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

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Proverbs 1:1
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel:

Proverbs 1:5
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;

Proverbs 1:6
to understand a proverb and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.

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

Proverbs 7:3
Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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 10:21
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

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Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;

Proverbs 1:25
but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

Proverbs 13:13
Whoever despises instruction will pay for it, but he who respects a command will be rewarded.

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

Jeremiah 32:33
They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.

John 3:18
He who believes in him is not judged. He who doesn’t believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only born Son of God.

Acts 13:41
‘Behold, you scoffers! Wonder and perish, for I work a work in your days, a work which you will in no way believe, if one declares it to you.’ ”

1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.

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Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

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Proverbs 19:1
Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his lips and is a fool.

Proverbs 19:3
The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

Proverbs 21:20
There is precious treasure and oil in the dwelling of the wise, but a foolish man swallows it up.

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Proverbs 14:9
Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

Proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he keeps silent, is counted wise. When he shuts his lips, he is thought to be discerning.

Proverbs 20:3
It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.

Proverbs 27:3
A stone is heavy, and sand is a burden; but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

Proverbs 28:26
One who trusts in himself is a fool; but one who walks in wisdom is kept safe.

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Proverbs 24:21
My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious,

Proverbs 31:30
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

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Proverbs 12:23
A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

Proverbs 13:1
A wise son listens to his father’s instruction, but a scoffer doesn’t listen to rebuke.

Proverbs 17:10
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

Proverbs 17:12
Let a bear robbed of her cubs meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.

Proverbs 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child; the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

Proverbs 27:22
Though you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with grain, yet his foolishness will not be removed from him.

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Proverbs 14:3
The fool’s talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

Proverbs 14:7
Stay away from a foolish man, for you won’t find knowledge on his lips.

Proverbs 26:4
Don’t answer a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.

Proverbs 29:9
If a wise man goes to court with a foolish man, the fool rages or scoffs, and there is no peace.

Proverbs 29:11
A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.

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Haggai 1:12
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.

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John 8:45
But because I tell the truth, you don’t believe me.

John 8:46
Which of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

John 8:47
He who is of God hears the words of God. For this cause you don’t hear, because you are not of God.”

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Psalms 10:4
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

Psalms 14:4
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

Psalms 92:6
A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Psalms 94:8
Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

Isaiah 19:11
The princes of Zoan are utterly foolish. The counsel of the wisest counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, “I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?”

Matthew 13:19
When anyone hears the word of the Kingdom and doesn’t understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away that which has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown by the roadside.

Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

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Zechariah 7:11
But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.

Zechariah 7:12
Yes, they made their hearts as hard as flint, lest they might hear the law and the words which Yahweh of Armies had sent by his Spirit by the former prophets. Therefore great wrath came from Yahweh of Armies.

Zechariah 7:13
It has come to pass that, as he called and they refused to listen, so they will call and I will not listen,” said Yahweh of Armies;

Romans 2:21
You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

2 Timothy 4:4
and will turn away their ears from the truth, and turn away to fables.

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