Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
In Context
22Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
24The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
Cross References
Psalms 119:72The Torah you have spoken is better to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
Proverbs 2:2so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Proverbs 9:8Don’t reprove a scoffer, lest he hate you. Reprove a wise person, and he will love you.
Proverbs 16:16How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 18:15The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Matthew 13:44“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 23:20-29
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way. 20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. 25… Read the whole commentary →