Proverbs 23:23 Cross References - ACV

²³ Buy the truth, and do not sell it, yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

¹² But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? ¹³ Man does not know the price of it, nor is it found in the land of the living. ¹⁴ The deep says, It is not in me. And the sea says, It is not with me. ¹⁵ It cannot be gotten for gold, nor shall silver be weighed for the price of it. ¹⁶ It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire. ¹⁷ Gold and glass cannot equal it, nor shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold. ¹⁸ No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal. Yea, the price of wisdom is above rubies. ¹⁹ The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, nor shall it be valued with pure gold.

⁷² The law of thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

¹²⁷ Therefore I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold.

² so as to incline thine ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding, ³ yea, if thou cry after discernment, and lift up thy voice for understanding, ⁴ if thou seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures,

⁵ Get wisdom, get understanding. Do not forget, nor decline from the words of my mouth. ⁶ Do not forsake her, and she will preserve thee. Love her, and she will keep thee. ⁷ Wisdom is the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding.

¹ The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.

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

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

¹⁵ The heart of a prudent man gets knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

¹ Ho, everyone who thirsts, come ye to the waters. And he who has no money, come ye, buy, and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

⁴⁴ Again the kingdom of the heavens is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man having found, he hid. And from the joy of it, he goes and sells all, as many things as he has, and buys that field.

⁴⁶ Who, having found one very valuable pearl, after departing, sold all, as many things as he had, and bought it.

²⁶ For what does it profit a man, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

²³ except that the Holy Spirit testifies from city to city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.

⁷ But whatever was gain to me, these things I regarded loss because of the Christ. ⁸ But indeed therefore I even consider all things to be loss because of things surpassing, of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, because of whom I suffered the loss of all things, and consider them to be rubbish, so that I may gain Christ,

²⁶ Having esteemed the vilification of the Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he focused toward the recompense of reward.

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy from me gold refined from fire, so that thou may become wealthy, and white garments, so that thou may clothe thyself, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be made known, and eye-salve, so that thou may anoint thine eyes, so that thou may see.

¹¹ And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony. And they loved not their life to the point of death.