Saying 12
Proverbs 23:12
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
- KJV
- Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- WEB
- Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
- ASV
- Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- LSV
- Bring your heart to instruction, || And your ear to sayings of knowledge.
- YLT
- Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.
- DBY
- Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- DRC
- Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
- GNV
- Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.
- JPS
- Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
- LXXE
- Apply thine heart to instruction, and prepare thine ears for words of discretion.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- הָבִ֣יאָה לַמּוּסָ֣ר לִבֶּ֑ךָ וְ֝אָזְנֶ֗ךָ לְאִמְרֵי־דָֽעַת׃
- LXX-Br
- Δὸς εἰς παιδείαν τὴν καρδίαν σου, τὰ δὲ ὦτά σου ἑτοίμασον λόγοις αἰσθήσεως.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 5:1–2My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight, that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
- Proverbs 2:2–6if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding, if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, then…
- James 1:21–25Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls. Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving…
- Proverbs 23:19Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
- Ezekiel 33:31So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
- Matthew 13:52Then He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
- Proverbs 22:17Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise— apply your mind to my knowledge—
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).