The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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Proverbs 2:5 · 15 connections
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And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.
Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great? …
End of linked passage: 2 Chronicles 1:12And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. …
End of linked passage: Jeremiah 32:41All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. …
End of linked passage: Luke 11:13And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: …
End of linked passage: Matthew 7:8All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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