Proverbs 4:7
Wisdom [is] the principal thing. Get wisdom, yea, with all thy getting get understanding.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
In Context
6Do not forsake her, and she will preserve thee. Love her, and she will keep thee.
8Exalt her, and she will promote thee. She will bring thee to honor when thou embrace her.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 1:10Give 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?
Psalms 119:104Through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every FALSE way.
Proverbs 16:16How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yea, to get understanding is rather to be chosen than silver.
Proverbs 23:23Buy the truth, and do not sell it, [yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Ecclesiastes 4:8There is one man who is alone, and he has not a second, yea, he has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end of all his labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [he says], do I labor, and deprive my soul of
Ecclesiastes 9:16Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 4:2-14
Parental Instructions. 1 Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding. 2 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law. 3 For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep… Read the whole commentary →