Proverbs 10:17 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

¹⁷ He is in the way of life that heedeth instruction; but he that forsaketh reproof erreth.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, as he talked with him, that the king said unto him: 'Have we made thee of the king's counsel? forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten?' Then the prophet forbore, and said: 'I know that God hath determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened unto my counsel.'

²⁵ But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof; ²⁶ I also, in your calamity, will laugh, I will mock when your dread cometh;

³⁰ They would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof.

¹ My son, forget not my teaching; but let thy heart keep my commandments; ² For length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to thee.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy is every one that holdest her fast.

⁴ And he taught me, and said unto me: 'Let thy heart hold fast my words, keep my commandments, and live;

¹³ Take fast hold of instruction, let her not go; keep her, for she is thy life.

¹² And say: 'How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life;

¹ Whoso loveth knowledge loveth correction; but he that is brutish hateth reproof.

¹⁰ There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way; and he that hateth reproof shall die.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge. ¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; let them be established altogether upon thy lips. ¹⁹ That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.

¹ He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be broken, and that without remedy.

⁶ (5:5) Suffer not thy mouth to bring thy flesh into guilt, neither say thou before the messenger, that it was an error; wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

²⁴ Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell not; for it was founded upon the rock. ²⁶ And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house, and it fell; and great was the fall thereof.

²⁸ But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

¹ Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away from them.

²⁵ See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not when they refused him that warned them on earth, much more shall not we escape who turn away from him that warneth from heaven:

⁵ Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue, and in your virtue knowledge, ⁶ and in your knowledge self-control, and in your self-control patience, and in your patience godliness, ⁷ and in your godliness brotherly kindness, and in your brotherly kindness love. ⁸ For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins. ¹⁰ Wherefore, brethren, give the more diligence to make your calling and election sure; for if ye do these things, ye shall never stumble: ¹¹ for thus shall be richly supplied unto you the entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.