Proverbs 8 (NET)

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Proverbs 8:1¹Does not wisdom call out? Does not understanding raise her voice?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 1:20-21 Matt 3:3 John 7:37 Acts 1:8 Prov 9:1-3 Isa 49:1-6 Isa 55:1-3 Luke 24:47 Mark 13:10 Rom 15:18-21

Proverbs 8:2²At the top of the prominent places along the way, at the intersection of the paths she has taken her stand;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 9:14 Prov 9:3

Proverbs 8:3³beside the gates opening into the city, at the entrance of the doorways she cries out:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 29:7 Acts 5:20 John 18:20 Luke 14:21-23 Matt 22:9

Proverbs 8:4⁴“To you, O people, I call out, and my voice calls to all mankind.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 11:15 John 3:16 Ps 49:1-3 Ps 50:1 Rev 22:17 1 Tim 2:4-6 2 Cor 5:19-20 Col 1:23 Col 1:28 Titus 2:11-12

Proverbs 8:5⁵You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 1:22 Acts 26:18 Prov 9:4 Rev 3:17-18 1 Cor 6:9-11 Prov 1:4 Ps 19:7 1 Cor 1:28 Isa 42:13 Isa 55:1-3

Proverbs 8:6⁶Listen, for I will speak excellent things, and my lips will utter what is right.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 1:26 Matt 7:28-29 Matt 13:35 Prov 23:16 Prov 4:2 1 Cor 2:6-7 Job 33:1-3 Matt 5:2-12 Prov 2:6-7 Prov 22:20-21

Proverbs 8:7⁷For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 37:30 John 8:14 John 17:17 Prov 12:22 Job 36:4 John 1:17 John 18:37 John 8:45-46 Prov 29:27 Rev 3:14

Proverbs 8:8⁸All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing in them twisted or crooked.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:46 Prov 8:13 Ps 12:6 Deut 32:5 Isa 45:23 Isa 63:1

Proverbs 8:9⁹All of them are clear to the discerning and upright to those who find knowledge.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 14:6 Jas 1:5 John 7:17 John 6:45 Ps 25:12-14 Matt 13:11-12 Prov 15:24 Prov 18:1-2 1 Cor 2:14-15 Isa 35:8

Proverbs 8:10¹⁰Receive my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 2:4-5 Ps 119:127 Ps 119:72 Prov 23:23 Prov 3:13-15 Acts 3:6 Eccl 7:11 Prov 10:20 Prov 16:16 Ps 119:162

Proverbs 8:11¹¹For wisdom is better than rubies, and desirable things cannot be compared to her.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 3:14-15 Prov 4:5-7 Prov 16:16 Ps 119:127 Ps 19:10 Job 28:15-19 Matt 16:26 Prov 20:15 Phil 3:8-9

Proverbs 8:12¹²“I, wisdom, have dwelt with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 28:26 Exod 35:30-36:4 Exod 31:3-6 Prov 1:4 Rom 11:33 1 Chr 28:19 Col 2:3 Eph 1:11 Isa 55:8-9 Ps 104:24

Proverbs 8:13¹³The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; I hate arrogant pride and the evil way and perverse utterances.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 97:10 Prov 16:6 1 Sam 2:3 Prov 4:24 1 Thess 5:22 1 Pet 5:5 Amos 5:15 Ps 119:128 Prov 16:18 Prov 6:12

Proverbs 8:14¹⁴Counsel and sound wisdom belong to me; I possess understanding and might.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 7:19 Isa 9:6 Isa 40:14 Rom 11:33-34 Col 2:3 Eccl 9:16-18 Prov 2:6-7 Prov 24:5 Rom 1:22 1 Cor 1:24

Proverbs 8:15¹⁵By me kings reign, and by me potentates decree righteousness;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 13:1 Dan 2:21 Matt 28:18 Rev 19:16 Dan 4:32 Dan 5:18-31 Dan 7:13-14 Jer 27:5-7 1 Chr 28:5 1 Kgs 10:9

Proverbs 8:16¹⁶by me princes rule, as well as nobles and all righteous judges.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Proverbs 8:17¹⁷I will love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 14:23 John 14:21 Ps 91:14 Isa 55:6 1 John 4:19 1 Sam 2:30 Matt 7:7-8 Matt 6:33 Isa 45:19 Jas 1:5

Proverbs 8:18¹⁸Riches and honor are with me, long-lasting wealth and righteousness.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 3:16 Matt 6:33 Luke 16:11-12 Phil 4:19 Eph 3:8 Rev 3:18 1 Tim 6:17-19 2 Cor 6:10 Eccl 5:14-16 Luke 10:42

Proverbs 8:19¹⁹My fruit is better than the purest gold, and my harvest is better than choice silver.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 10:20 Prov 3:14 Eccl 7:12 Prov 8:10

Proverbs 8:20²⁰I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 10:27-28 Deut 5:32 Ps 32:8 Prov 4:11-12 Isa 2:3 Prov 3:6 Prov 6:22 Ps 25:4-5 Ps 23:3 Isa 49:10

Proverbs 8:21²¹that I may cause those who love me to inherit wealth, and that I may fill their treasuries.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:4 Prov 24:4 Gen 15:14 Matt 25:46 1 Sam 2:8 Heb 10:34 Prov 1:13 Ps 16:11 John 1:1-18 Prov 6:31

Proverbs 8:22²²The Lord created me as the beginning of his works, before his deeds of long ago.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Col 1:17 John 1:1-2 Prov 3:19 Ps 104:24 Job 28:26-28

Proverbs 8:23²³From eternity I have been fashioned, from the beginning, from before the world existed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 17:24 Gen 1:26 Mic 5:2 Ps 2:6 John 17:5 1 John 1:1-2 Eph 1:10-11

Proverbs 8:24²⁴When there were no deep oceans I was born, when there were no springs overflowing with water;Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 4:9 Prov 3:20 Gen 1:2 Heb 1:5 John 1:14 John 3:16 John 5:20 Ps 2:7

Proverbs 8:25²⁵before the mountains were set in place— before the hills—I was born,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 90:2 Job 15:7-8 Job 38:4-11 Ps 102:25-28 Heb 1:10

Proverbs 8:26²⁶before he made the earth and its fields, or the top soil of the world.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 1:1-31

Proverbs 8:27²⁷When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 40:22 Job 26:10 Prov 3:19 Col 1:16 Ps 136:5 Isa 40:11 Jer 10:12 Heb 1:2 Ps 33:6 Ps 103:19

Proverbs 8:28²⁸when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Proverbs 8:29²⁹when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 104:9 Jer 5:22 Gen 1:9-10 Job 38:4-11 Ps 104:5 Ps 33:7

Proverbs 8:30³⁰then I was beside him as a master craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 1:1-3 John 1:18 Isa 42:1 Matt 3:17 John 12:28 John 16:28 Col 1:13 Matt 17:5

Proverbs 8:31³¹rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 16:3 John 13:1 Ps 40:6-8 2 Cor 8:9 John 4:34

Proverbs 8:32³²“So now, children, listen to me; blessed are those who keep my ways.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 11:28 Ps 119:1-2 Ps 1:1-4 Ps 128:1 Prov 5:7 Prov 7:24

Proverbs 8:33³³Listen to my instruction so that you may be wise, and do not neglect it.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 4:1 Ps 81:11-12 Prov 1:8 Prov 5:1 Prov 1:2-3 Heb 12:25 Rom 10:16-17 Isa 55:1-3 Prov 1:21 Acts 7:35-37

Proverbs 8:34³⁴Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching at my doors day by day, waiting beside my doorway.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 11:28 Matt 7:24 Prov 3:13 Acts 2:42 Luke 10:39 Ps 27:4 Acts 17:11-12 Ps 84:10 Prov 2:3-4 Prov 3:18

Proverbs 8:35³⁵For the one who finds me has found life and received favor from the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:36 1 John 5:11-12 Prov 12:2 Phil 3:8 John 17:3 Col 3:3 Prov 3:13-18 John 14:6 Eph 1:6 Prov 1:33

Proverbs 8:36³⁶But the one who misses me brings harm to himself; all who hate me love death.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 15:32 Prov 1:31 1 Cor 16:22 John 15:23-24 Prov 20:2 Prov 12:1 Ezek 18:31 Heb 10:29 John 3:19-20 Prov 5:11-12

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