Proverbs 23:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Proverbs 23:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 2:2-6
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; …
Proverbs 5:1-2
My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: …
Proverbs 23:19
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
James 1:21-25
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. …
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-16)

Here is, 1. A parent instructing his child. He is here brought in persuading him to give his mind to his book, and especially to the scriptures and his catechism, to attend to the words of knowledge, by which he might come to know his duty, and danger, and interest, and not to think it enough to give them the hearing, but to apply his heart to them, to delight in them, and bow his will to the auth…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. Here begins another series of precepts.