◄ Proverbs 23:19 ►
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Good News Translation
Listen, my child, be wise and give serious thought to the way you live.

New Revised Standard Version
Hear, my child, and be wise, and direct your mind in the way.

Contemporary English Version
Listen to me, my children! Be wise and have enough sense to follow the right path.

New American Bible
Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the right way.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

and guide

Proverbs 23:12,26 Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge. . . .

Proverbs 4:10-23 I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity: . . .

in the way or 'in the right way'

Context
True Riches
…18Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away. 19Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.20Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:9
Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons,

Proverbs 4:23
Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.

Proverbs 6:6
Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,

Proverbs 9:6
He that teacheth a scorner, doth an injury to himself; and he that rebuketh a wicked man, getteth himself a blot.

Proverbs 23:18
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