What Does the Bible Say About Book Of Proverbs?

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...

Proverbs 25:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied.

1 Kings 4:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Proverbs 22:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge,

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Proverbs 30:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The words of Agur son of Jakeh. The oracle. The man declares, I am weary, O God; I am weary, O God, and worn out. Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man. I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One. Who has ascended to heaven and come down? Who has gathered the wind in his fists? Who has wrapped up the waters in a garment? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son's name? Surely you know! Every word of God proves true; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. ...

Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Like a gold ring in a pig's snout is a beautiful woman without discretion.

Proverbs 9:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But he does not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.

Proverbs 8:22-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth, before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. ...

Proverbs 8:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.

Proverbs 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;

Proverbs 2:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding, if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God. ...

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that his mother taught him: What are you doing, my son? What are you doing, son of my womb? What are you doing, son of my vows? Do not give your strength to women, your ways to those who destroy kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to take strong drink, lest they drink and forget what has been decreed and pervert the rights of all the afflicted. ...

Proverbs 25:1-29:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

These also are proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied. It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out. As the heavens for height, and the earth for depth, so the heart of kings is unsearchable. Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel; take away the wicked from the presence of the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness. ...

Proverbs 24:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

These also are sayings of the wise. Partiality in judging is not good.

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 8:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice? On the heights beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud: “To you, O men, I call, and my cry is to the children of man. O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense. ...

Proverbs 1:20-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you. Because I have called and you refused to listen, have stretched out my hand and no one has heeded, ...

Proverbs 1:8-9:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hear, my son, your father's instruction, and forsake not your mother's teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck. My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent. If they say, “Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason; like Sheol let us swallow them alive, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; ...

Proverbs 1:1-9:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; ...

Exodus 20:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“You shall have no other gods before me.

Exodus 20:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, ...

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

32 Bible Verses about Book Of Proverbs

Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Kings 4:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 9:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 8:22-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

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Proverbs 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 2:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:1-29:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 8:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:20-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8-9:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:1-9:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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32 Bible Verses about Book Of Proverbs

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Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes

1 Kings 4:32 ESV / 5 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 22:17 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 10:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 30:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 15:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 11:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 9:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 8:22-31 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 8:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 7:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 2:1-22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Proverbs 31:1-31 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 25:1-29:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 24:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 10:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 8:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:20-33 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:8-9:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 1:1-9:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:1-176 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 1:1-6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:1-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote