Proverbs 10:17 Cross References - YLT

¹⁷ A traveller to life is he who is keeping instruction, And whoso is forsaking rebuke is erring.

¹⁶ And it cometh to pass, in his speaking unto him, that he saith to him, `For a counsellor to the king have we appointed thee? cease for thee; why do they smite thee?' And the prophet ceaseth, and saith, `I have known that God hath counselled to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.'

²⁵ And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. ²⁶ I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh,

³⁰ They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

¹ My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep, ² For length of days and years, Life and peace they do add to thee.

¹⁸ A tree of life she is to those laying hold on her, And whoso is retaining her is happy.

⁴ And he directeth me, and he saith to me: `Let thy heart retain my words, Keep my commands, and live.

¹³ Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.

¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

²³ For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,

¹ Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof is brutish.

¹⁰ Chastisement is grievous to him who is forsaking the path, Whoso is hating reproof dieth.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear, and hear words of the wise, And thy heart set to my knowledge, ¹⁸ For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips. ¹⁹ That thy trust may be in Jehovah, I caused thee to know to-day, even thou.

¹ A man often reproved, hardening the neck, Is suddenly broken, and there is no healing.

⁶ Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that `it is an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed the work of thy hands?

²⁴ `Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock; <sup>25</sup> and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell not, for it had been founded on the rock. <sup>26</sup> `And every one who is hearing of me these words, and is not doing them, shall be likened to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain did descend, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.'

²⁸ And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

¹ Because of this it behoveth us more abundantly to take heed to the things heard, lest we may glide aside,

²⁵ See, may ye not refuse him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who upon earth was divinely speaking—much less we who do turn away from him who speaketh from heaven,

⁵ And this same also—all diligence having brought in besides, superadd in your faith the worthiness, and in the worthiness the knowledge, ⁶ and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety, ⁷ and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love; ⁸ for these things being to you and abounding, do make you neither inert nor unfruitful in regard to the acknowledging of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁹ for he with whom these things are not present is blind, dim-sighted, having become forgetful of the cleansing of his old sins; ¹⁰ wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble, ¹¹ for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.