Proverbs 4:13

Hold fast to instruction and guard her, for she is your life. Wisdom is to be gripped tightly because life itself depends on her.

Cross-references · 16

• Heb 2:1Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
• Prov 23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
• Prov 3:18She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.
• 1 Th 5:21Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
• Deut 32:47For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
• Acts 11:23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
• Acts 2:42And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
• John 6:68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
• Rev 12:11And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
• Song 3:4It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
• Rev 2:13I know thy works, and where thou dwellest, even where Satan’s seat is: and thou holdest fast my name, and hast not denied my faith, even in those days wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr, who was slain among you, where Satan dwelleth.
• Eccl 7:12For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
• Luke 24:27–29And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
• Prov 3:22So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.
• Gen 32:26And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
• John 4:39–42And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

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