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Proverbs 1:5
(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
Proverbs 1:5 · Bible in Basic English
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Proverbs 1:5 in other translations
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel
that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel;
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In context
2 To have knowledge of wise teaching; to be clear about the words of reason:
3 To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:
4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
5 (The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)
6 To get the sense of wise sayings and secrets, and of the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the Lord is the start of knowledge: but the foolish have no use for wisdom and teaching.
8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
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