Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 8:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 4:1 Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
- Psalms 81:11-12 But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me. So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.
- Proverbs 1:8 My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:
- Proverbs 5:1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,
- Proverbs 1:2-3 to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding; to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
- Romans 10:16-17 But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
- Hebrews 12:25 See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
- Proverbs 1:21 She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
- Isaiah 55:1-3 “Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness. Turn your ear, and come to me. Hear, and your soul will live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
- Acts 7:35-37 “This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’—God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush. This man led them out, having worked wonders and signs in Egypt, in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Pro 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse…
Pro 8:33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Ver. 33. Hear instruction, and be wise.] This way wisdom enters into the soul. Hear, therefore, for else there is no hope; hear, howsoever. Augustine, coming to Ambrose to have his ears tickled, had his heart touched.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Or, do not make it void or unprofitable to…
Or, do not make it void or unprofitable to you by your own sloth or wilfulness.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Hear instruction,.... The instruction of wisdom, the Gospel of…
Hear instruction,.... The instruction of wisdom, the Gospel of Christ; which instructs men in things relating to God the Father; as that he is the God and Father of his people, the God of all grace, the giver and sender of Christ, and all good things by him; in things respecting Christ, his person, office, grace, and righteousness; in things that appertain to the Spirit of God, his deity, personality, and operations of grace on the souls of men; in the knowledge of themselves, their impurity, impotence, and unrighteousness; and in the way of salvation by Jesus Christ, and therefore to be hearkened to;
and be wise; this is the way to be wise to that which is good, both as to the knowledge and practice of it; to be wise unto salvation, and with respect to everlasting things and a future state; and the Gospel instruction teaches men to behave wisely, to walk in wisdom towards them that are without;
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and refuse it not; for this is not to be wise, but to act the part of fools; and such as do so despise their own souls, show that they have no care of them, or concern for their eternal welfare, Pro 1:7; for, if this is rejected, there is no escaping eternal damnation, Heb 2:3.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Be wise. This will be the effect of attending…
Be wise. This will be the effect of attending to the injunction, Hear instruction. (see on Pro_3:4) The Vatican text of the Septuagint omits this verse; it is added in the Alexandrian and Sin.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Hear instruction, and be wise.
Pro_8:33
Hear instruction, and be wise.
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Motives for hearing sermons
Contempt of Gods Sabbaths and disregard of ministerial instruction are melancholy characteristics of the age in which we live.
I. The tendency of preaching and meaning the word to promote our best interest. This tendency is sufficient to enforce the duty recommended in my text. The sacred oracles are profitable. The doctrines revealed in them are not doubtful speculations, or light and trivial matters, but truths of infallible certainty, of the most sublime and excellent nature, and, to us men, of infinite importance. The learned as well as illiterate need to go to church on their own account. None, in this imperfect state, arrive at such extent and exactness of Christian knowledge as to need no further assistance for knowing more. For wise reasons the Bible was not written in a systematic form. In searching the Scriptures we need to use the fittest and most effectual means in our power. What can be better suited to assist us in the attainment of religious knowledge than the discourses of those who have not only made it their chief business to study the sacred oracles, but who, by cultivating their rational powers, have acquired a facility of forming distinct conceptions of things, and of expressing those conceptions with plainness and propriety? And knowledge, however extensive, if it hath no suitable influence on mens hearts and lives, will profit them nothing. Therefore men need a faithful monitor, to awaken in us a practical sense of danger and of duty. So sensible was Julian the apostate how wise an institution preaching was for promoting the knowledge and practice of religion, that he appointed men to preach moral philosophy, and to harangue, publicly, in defence of heathenism.
II. Hearing the Word of God is enjoined by express Divine authority. In the Old Testament dispensation (Deu_24:8; Ecc_12:9-11; Neh_8:7-11; Hag_2:11; Mal_2:7) synagogue worship had to be regularly attended. New Testament injunctions are Eph_4:11-13; 1Ti_4:16; 2Ti_2:15; 2Ti_4:2; Tit_1:9; Tit_2:1; Tit_2:7-8.
III. The dreadful threatenings denounced and executed against those who refuse to hear Gods Word. Such as Pro_1:24-31; Pro_21:16; Pro_28:9; Mat_10:14; Heb_2:2-3; Heb_10:28-29; Heb_12:25. On the other hand, God hath promised His special presence and blessing to the faithful preaching, and conscientious hearing of His Word. To support and strengthen our hopes let us review former accomplishments of these exceeding great and precious promises. In how miraculous a manner hath the Word of God often triumphed over the greatest opposition. (J. Erskine, D. D.)
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