Proverbs 2:5 {6}
Good News Translation
If you do, you will know what it means to fear the LORD and you will succeed in learning about God.

New Revised Standard Version
then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

Contemporary English Version
Then you will understand what it means to respect and to know the LORD God.

New American Bible
Then will you understand the fear of the LORD; the knowledge of God you will find;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.

shalt

2 Chronicles 1:10-12 Give me wisdom and knowledge that I may come in and go out before thy people: for who can worthily judge this thy people, which is so great? . . .

Hosea 6:3 He will revive us after two days: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. We shall know, and we shall follow on, that we may know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning light, and he will come to us as the early and the latter rain to the earth.

Matthew 7:7,8 Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. . . .

Luke 11:9-13 And I say to you: Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find: knock, and it shall be opened to you. . . .

the fear

Proverbs 9:10 For by me shall thy days be multiplied, and years of life shall be added to thee.

Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

Jeremiah 32:40,41 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, and will not cease to do them good: and I will give my fear in their heart, that they may not revolt from me. . . .

find

Jeremiah 9:24 But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, for I am the Lord that exercise mercy, and judgment, and justice in the earth: for these things please me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: because they shall return to me with their whole heart.

Jeremiah 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: Know the Lord: for all shall know me from the least of them even to the greatest, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

Matthew 11:27 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son but the Father: neither doth any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.

Luke 10:22 All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth who the Son is, but the Father: and who the Father is, but the Son and to whom the Son will reveal him.

John 17:3 Now this is eternal life: That they may know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

1 John 5:20 And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal.

Context
The Benefits of Wisdom
4Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and shalt find the knowledge of God: 5Because the Lord giveth wisdom: and out of his mouth cometh prudence and knowledge.6He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,…
Cross References
Proverbs 1:7
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 8:17
With me are riches and glory, glorious riches and justice.

Proverbs 2:4
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