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 pay greater attention to the things that were heard, lest perhaps we drift away.
• Prov 23:23Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
• Prov 3:18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.
• 1 Th 5:21Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.
• Deut 32:47For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”
• Acts 11:23who, when he had come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad. He exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they should remain near to the Lord.
• Acts 2:42They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and prayer.
• John 6:68Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
• Rev 12:11They overcame him because of the Lamb’s blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn’t love their life, even to death.
• Song 3:4I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
• Rev 2:13“I know your works and where you dwell, where Satan’s throne is. You hold firmly to my name, and didn’t deny my faith in the days of Antipas my witness, my faithful one, who was killed among you, where Satan dwells.
• Eccl 7:12For wisdom is a defense, even as money is a defense; but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
• Luke 24:27–29Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
• Prov 3:22so they will be life to your soul, and grace for your neck.
• Gen 32:26The man said, “Let me go, for the day breaks.” Jacob said, “I won’t let you go, unless you bless me.”
• John 4:39–42From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

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