Proverbs 23:12
Good News Translation
Pay attention to your teacher and learn all you can.

New Revised Standard Version
Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

Contemporary English Version
Listen to instruction and do your best to learn.

New American Bible
Apply your heart to instruction, and your ear to words of knowledge.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.

Proverbs 2:2-6 For if thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence: . . .

Proverbs 5:1,2 That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman. . . .

Proverbs 22:17 Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine:

Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Matthew 13:52 He said unto them: Therefore every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old.

James 1:21-25 Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls. . . .

Context
True Riches
11For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee. 12Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.13Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.…
Cross References
Proverbs 23:11
For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.

Proverbs 23:13
Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.

Proverbs 23:11
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