Proverbs 23:12

Amplified Bible

Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Commit yourself to instruction; listen carefully to words of knowledge.

Update Bible Version
Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to the words of knowledge.

New Century Version
Remember what you are taught, and listen carefully to words of knowledge.

New English Translation
Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Webster's Bible Translation
Apply thy heart to instruction, and thy ears to the words of knowledge.

World English Bible
Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to the words of knowledge.

English Standard Version
Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thin herte entre to techyng, and thin eeris `be redi to the wordis of kunnyng.

English Revised Version
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Berean Standard Bible
Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.

Contemporary English Version

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Listen to instruction and do your best to learn.

American Standard Version
Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Bible in Basic English
Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Complete Jewish Bible
Apply your mind to discipline and your ears to words of knowledge.

Darby Translation
Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Easy-to-Read Version
Listen to your teacher and learn all you can.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

King James Version (1611)
Apply thine heart vnto instruction, and thine eares to the words of knowledge.

New Life Bible
Open your heart to teaching, and your ears to words of much learning.

New Revised Standard
Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine eares to the wordes of knowledge.

George Lamsa Translation
Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Good News Translation

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Pay attention to your teacher and learn all you can.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Bring, to correction, thy heart, and thine ears, to the sayings of knowledge.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let thy heart apply itself to instruction and thy ears to words of knowledge.

Revised Standard Version
Apply your mind to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Applye thyne heart vnto correction, and thyne eare to the wordes of knowledge.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Apply thine heart to instruction, and prepare thine ears for words of discretion.

Christian Standard Bible®
Apply yourself to disciplineand listen to words of knowledge.

Hebrew Names Version
Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to the words of knowledge.

King James Version
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.

Lexham English Bible
Apply your heart to instruction, and your ear to sayings of knowledge.

Literal Translation
Bring your heart in for instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

Young's Literal Translation
Bring in to instruction thy heart, And thine ear to sayings of knowledge.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Applie thine herte vnto lernynge, and thine eare to the wordes of knowlege.

THE MESSAGE

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Give yourselves to disciplined instruction; open your ears to tested knowledge.

New American Standard Bible
Apply your heart to discipline, And your ears to words of knowledge.

New King James Version
Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to words of knowledge.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge.

Legacy Standard Bible
Bring your heart to disciplineAnd your ears to words of knowledge.

Contextual Overview

¹²Apply your heart to discipline And your ears to words of knowledge.¹³Do not withhold discipline from the child; If you swat him with a reed-like rod [applied with godly wisdom], he will not die. ¹⁴You shall swat him with the reed-like rod And rescue his life from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead). ¹⁵My son, if your heart is wise, My heart will also be glad; ¹⁶Yes, my heart will rejoice When your lips speak right things.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 23:19, Proverbs 2:2-6, Proverbs 5:1, Proverbs 5:2, Proverbs 22:17, Ezekiel 33:31, Matthew 13:52, James 1:21-25

Reciprocal: Psalms 90:12 - that Isaiah 34:16 - Seek

Cross-References

Genesis 18:2
When he raised his eyes and looked up, behold, three men were standing [a little distance] from him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed down [with his face] to the ground,

Genesis 19:1
It was evening when the two angels came to Sodom. Lot was sitting at Sodom's [city] gate. Seeing them, Lot got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

Genesis 23:7
So Abraham stood up and bowed to the people of the land, the Hittites.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Apply thine heart unto instruction,.... To the instruction of parents, and to the instruction of ministers of the word; to the Scriptures, which are profitable to instruction in righteousness; to the instruction of wisdom, or to the Gospel of Christ, which instructs in things relating to him, and to salvation by him: or, "bring in thine heart to instruction" y; not only bring thy body to the place of instruction, the house of God, but bring thine heart thither also;

and thine ears to the words of knowledge; the doctrines of the Gospel, which are the means of the knowledge of God and Christ, and of all divine, spiritual, and heavenly tidings; and of a growth in the knowledge of them; and therefore should be diligently hearkened and cordially attended to.

y הביאה "adduc", Piscator; "vel fac ingredi", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus; "adduc et quasi praesens siste", Michaelis,