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New Life Version

Proverbs 19:20

Listen to words about what you should do, and take your punishment if you need it, so that you may be wise the rest of your days.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Counsel;   Wisdom;   The Topic Concordance - Counsel;   Hearing;   Instruction;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Poetry, Hebrew;   Wisdom;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Listen to counsel and receive instructionso that you may be wise later in life.
Hebrew Names Version
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter end.
King James Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
English Standard Version
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
New American Standard Bible
Listen to advice and accept discipline, So that you may be wise the rest of your days.
New Century Version
Listen to advice and accept correction, and in the end you will be wise.
Amplified Bible
Listen to counsel, receive instruction, and accept correction, That you may be wise in the time to come.
World English Bible
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter end.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Heare counsell and receiue instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter ende.
Legacy Standard Bible
Listen to counsel and receive discipline,That you may be wise in the end of your days.
Berean Standard Bible
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, that you may be wise the rest of your days.
Contemporary English Version
Pay attention to advice and accept correction, so you can live sensibly.
Complete Jewish Bible
Listen to advice, and accept discipline, so that in the end you will be wise.
Darby Translation
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Easy-to-Read Version
Listen to advice and accept discipline; then you, too, will become wise.
George Lamsa Translation
Hear counsel and receive instruction that you may be wise in your ways.
Good News Translation
If you listen to advice and are willing to learn, one day you will be wise.
Lexham English Bible
Listen to advice and accept instruction so that you will gain wisdom for your future.
Literal Translation
Hear advice and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter end.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
O geue eare vnto good councell, & be content to be refourmed, that thou mayest bewyse here after.
American Standard Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Bible in Basic English
Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
King James Version (1611)
Heare counsell, and receiue instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
O geue eare vnto good counsayle, and be content to be refourmed, that thou mayest be wyse in the latter dayes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hear, son, the instruction of thy father, that thou mayest be wise at thy latter end.
English Revised Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Here thou counsel, and take thou doctryn; that thou be wijs in thi laste thingis.
Update Bible Version
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter end.
Webster's Bible Translation
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
New English Translation
Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.
New King James Version
Listen to counsel and receive instruction, That you may be wise in your latter days.
New Living Translation
Get all the advice and instruction you can, so you will be wise the rest of your life.
New Revised Standard
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Hear counsel, receive correction, that thou mayest be wise in thine after-life.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayst be wise in thy latter end.
Revised Standard Version
Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom for the future.
Young's Literal Translation
Hear counsel and receive instruction, So that thou art wise in thy latter end.
THE MESSAGE
Take good counsel and accept correction— that's the way to live wisely and well.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Listen to counsel and accept discipline, That you may be wise the rest of your days.

Contextual Overview

20 Listen to words about what you should do, and take your punishment if you need it, so that you may be wise the rest of your days.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

receive: Proverbs 1:8, Proverbs 2:1-9, Proverbs 8:34, Proverbs 8:35

be: Numbers 23:10, Deuteronomy 8:16, Deuteronomy 32:29, Psalms 37:37, Psalms 90:12, Psalms 90:14, Luke 16:19-23

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 12:8 - General 1 Chronicles 21:11 - Choose thee 2 Chronicles 10:6 - took counsel 2 Chronicles 10:8 - he forsook Job 8:7 - thy latter Proverbs 4:1 - attend Proverbs 4:10 - my Proverbs 12:15 - but Proverbs 13:10 - with Proverbs 15:5 - but Proverbs 15:31 - ear Jeremiah 35:13 - Will Ezekiel 3:10 - receive Revelation 3:18 - counsel

Cross-References

Genesis 12:13
Say that you are my sister. Then it may go well with me because of you. And because of you they will not kill me."
Genesis 19:5
They called to Lot, saying, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we may lie with them."
Genesis 19:7
He said, "My brothers, please do not be so sinful.
Genesis 19:30
Then Lot went up from Zoar with his two daughters, and lived in the mountains for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He lived in a cave in the side of a mountain with his two daughters.
Psalms 119:175
Let me live so I may praise You, and let Your Law help me.
Isaiah 55:3
Listen and come to Me. Hear, so you may live. And I will make an agreement with you that lasts forever, because of the faithful love promised to David.
Amos 3:6
Are not the people afraid when a horn is blown in a city? When trouble comes to a city, has not the Lord caused it?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hear counsel, and receive instruction,.... Of parents, masters, and ministers; especially the counsel and instruction of Wisdom, of Jesus Christ, the Wisdom of God, the wonderful Counsellor; and of his Gospel and of the Scriptures, which are able to make a man wise unto salvation;

that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end; in the latter end of life, at death; that then it may appear a man has been so wise as to be concerned for a future state, for the good of his soul in another world; by listening to the counsel and instruction of Christ, in his word; by looking to him, and believing in him, for life and salvation; by leaning and living upon him; and committing the affairs of his soul, and the salvation of it, to him.


 
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