Proverbs 19:8
He who acquires wisdom loves himself; one who safeguards understanding will find success.
BSB
ASV
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: He that keepeth understanding shall find good.
KJV
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
Wisdom - literally, as in the margin, to gain a “heart,” i. e., the higher faculties both of reason and feeling, is identical with gaining wisdom, i. e., the faculty which seeks and finds.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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1 Peter 3:10For, “Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech.
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Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not bridle his tongue, he deceives his heart and his religion is worthless.
Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
“He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”
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Proverbs 3:18She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and those who lay hold of her are blessed.
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The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to eat from the tree of life in the…
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Proverbs 4:6Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.
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and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.
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Proverbs 16:20Whoever heeds instruction will find success, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.
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But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.