Proverbs 8:17 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 8:17

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

KJV

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ASV

I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

WEB

I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.

YLT

I love those loving me, And those seeking me earnestly do find me.

DBT

I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.

About this book

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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37 verses on the floor

Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Matthew 7:7
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
John 14:23
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
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.
Psalms 91:14
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

The redeemer is the eternal Word and wisdom, the Logos. He is the Wisdom that speaks to the children of men in the former part of the chapter. All divine revelation passes through his hand, and centres in him; but of him as the personal Wisdom, the second person in the Godhead, in the judgment of many of the ancients, Solomon here speaks,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Those that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity shall be beloved of him with a peculiar distinguishing love: he will love them and manifest himself to them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

I love - I do not despise their love, but kindly accept it and recompence it with my love and favour. Early - With sincere affection and diligence, which he mentions as the evidence of their love.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H783612× in canon H157211× in canon

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

PRO 8:17ISA 55:6 JER 29:12-14
PRO 8:17JHN 14:21 JHN 14:15
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
PRO 8:17ISA 55:6 PSA 145:18
PRO 8:17ISA 55:6 ISA 45:19
PRO 8:17ISA 55:6 PSA 32:6
PRO 8:17ISA 55:6 PSA 14:2
PRO 8:17JHN 14:21 1JN 5:3
PRO 8:17JHN 14:21 1JN 2:5

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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