Proverbs 2:2

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

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Deuteronomy 6:6
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

Deuteronomy 6:7
and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.

Joshua 1:8
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.

Psalms 1:2
but his delight is in Yahweh’s law. On his law he meditates day and night.

Proverbs 1:8
My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching;

Proverbs 2:11
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Proverbs 3:3
Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Proverbs 3:21
My son, let them not depart from your eyes. Keep sound wisdom and discretion,

Proverbs 4:21
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.

Proverbs 6:20
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

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

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

John 15:7
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.

2 Thessalonians 2:10
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.

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Joshua 18:3
Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Proverbs 10:4
He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

Proverbs 13:4
The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

Zephaniah 3:16
In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”

Matthew 20:6
About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’

2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

2 Peter 1:11
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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1 Chronicles 28:9
You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2
He went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

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Psalms 119:34
Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.

Proverbs 22:18
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Proverbs 23:12
Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

Hosea 6:3
Let’s acknowledge Yahweh. Let’s press on to know Yahweh. As surely as the sun rises, Yahweh will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”

Matthew 7:7
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

Mark 4:11
He said to them, “To you is given the mystery of God’s Kingdom, but to those who are outside, all things are done in parables,

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.

John 14:21
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”

Acts 10:33
Therefore I sent to you at once, and it was good of you to come. Now therefore we are all here present in the sight of God to hear all things that have been commanded you by God.”

1 Corinthians 2:10
But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

James 1:23
For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

James 1:24
for he sees himself, and goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

James 1:25
But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

1 Peter 2:2
as newborn babies, long for the pure spiritual milk, that with it you may grow,

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Psalms 119:112
I have set my heart to perform your statutes forever, even to the end.

Proverbs 1:3
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;

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

Proverbs 4:8
Esteem her, and she will exalt you. She will bring you to honor when you embrace her.

Proverbs 8:10
Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.

Proverbs 8:35
For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh.

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

Proverbs 19:20
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.

Isaiah 55:3
Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

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Proverbs 1:20
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

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.

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Ecclesiastes 7:25
I turned around, and my heart sought to know and to search out, and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know that wickedness is stupidity, and that foolishness is madness.

Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or night),

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