Proverbs 8:33 {34}
Good News Translation
Listen to what you are taught. Be wise; do not neglect it.

New Revised Standard Version
Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.

Contemporary English Version
Listen carefully to my instructions, and you will be wise.

New American Bible
Listen to instruction and grow wise, do not reject it!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.

hear

Proverbs 1:2,3,8 To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity: . . .

Proverbs 4:1 I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.

Proverbs 5:1 That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.

Isaiah 55:1-3 All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price. . . .

Romans 10:16,17 But all do not obey the gospel. For Isaias saith: Lord, who hath believed our report? . . .

refuse

Proverbs 1:21 O children, how long will you love childishness, and fools covet those things which are hurtful to themselves, and the unwise hate knowledge?

Psalm 81:11,12 But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me. . . .

Acts 7:35-37 This Moses, whom they refused, saying: Who hath appointed thee prince and judge? Him God sent to be prince and redeemer, by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush. . . .

Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon earth, much more shall not we that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.

Context
The Excellence of Wisdom
32Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 33Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.34He that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have salvation from the Lord.…
Cross References
Proverbs 4:1
I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.

Proverbs 15:32
He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his own soul: but he that yieldeth to reproof, possesseth understanding.

Proverbs 19:20
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.

Proverbs 8:32
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