Proverbs 9:6

In 11 translations

BSB

Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”

KJV

Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

WEB

Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”

ASV

Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.

LSV

Forsake the simple and live, || And be blessed in the way of understanding.”

YLT

Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.

DBY

Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.

DRC

Forsake childishness, and live, and walk by the ways of prudence.

GNV

Forsake your way, ye foolish, and ye shall liue: and walke in the way of vnderstanding.

JPS

Forsake all thoughtlessness, and live; and walk in the way of understanding.

LXXE

Leave folly, that ye may reign for ever; and seek wisdom, and improve understanding by knowledge.Alex. + 'that ye may live.'

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Original-language editions

WLC

עִזְב֣וּ פְתָאיִ֣ם וִֽחְי֑וּ וְ֝אִשְׁר֗וּ בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ בִּינָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ἀπολείπετε ἀφροσύνην, ἵνα εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα βασιλεύσητε· καὶ ζητήσατε φρόνησιν, καὶ κατορθώσατε ἐν γνώσει σύνεσιν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
• Proverbs 4:11I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
• Luke 13:24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.
• 2 Corinthians 6:17“Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
• Proverbs 4:14–15Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers. Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.
• Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
• Revelation 18:4Then I heard another voice from heaven say: “Come out of her, My people, so that you will not share in her sins or contract any of her plagues.
• Proverbs 9:11For through wisdom your days will be multiplied, and years will be added to your life.
• Matthew 7:13–14Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
• Psalms 26:4–6I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites. I hate the mob of evildoers, and refuse to sit with the wicked. I wash my hands in innocence that I may go about Your altar, O LORD,
• Acts 2:40With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
• Psalms 119:115Depart from me, you evildoers, that I may obey the commandments of my God.
• Psalms 45:10Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
• Proverbs 10:17Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).