◄ Proverbs 1:3 {4} ►
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Good News Translation
They can teach you how to live intelligently and how to be honest, just, and fair.

New Revised Standard Version
for gaining instruction in wise dealing, righteousness, justice, and equity;

Contemporary English Version
You will learn what is right and honest and fair.

New American Bible
May receive instruction in wise conduct, in what is right, just and fair;

Douay-Rheims Bible
To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.

receive

Proverbs 2:1,9 That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence. . . .

Proverbs 8:10,11 For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it. . . .

Job 22:22 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

equity

1 Kings 3:28 And all Israel heard the judgment which the king had judged, and they feared the king, seeing that the wisdom of God was in him to do judgment.

Context
The Beginning of Knowledge
…2To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity: 3To give subtilty to little ones, to the young man knowledge and understanding.4A wise man shall hear, and shall be wiser: and he that understandeth shall possess governments.…
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1
That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: incline thy heart to know prudence.

Proverbs 2:9
If wisdom shall enter into thy heart, and knowledge please thy soul:

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

Proverbs 1:2
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