Proverbs 8:17 {18}
Good News Translation
I love those who love me; whoever looks for me can find me.

New Revised Standard Version
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Contemporary English Version
I love everyone who loves me, and I will be found by all who honestly search.

New American Bible
Those who love me I also love, and those who seek me find me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.

Context
The Excellence of Wisdom
16I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me. 17With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.18For my fruit is better than gold and the precious stone, and my blossoms than choice silver.…
Cross References
John 7:37
And on the last, and great day of the festivity, Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink.

John 14:21
He that hath my commandments and keepeth them; he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him and will manifest myself to him.

James 1:5
But if any of you want wisdom, let him ask of God who giveth to all men abundantly and upbraideth not. And it shall be given him.

1 Samuel 2:30
Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.

2 Chronicles 34:3
And in the eighth year of his reign, when he was yet a boy, he began to seek the God of his father David: and in the twelfth year after he began to reign, he cleansed Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the idols, and the graven things.

Proverbs 1:28
Because they have hated instruction, and received not the fear of the Lord,

Proverbs 2:4
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God:

Proverbs 2:5
Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.

Proverbs 4:6
The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.

Proverbs 8:16
I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.

Songs 3:4
When I had a little passed by them, I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him: and I will not let him go, till I bring him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that bore me.

Proverbs 8:16
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