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O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

O ye simple {H6612}, understand {H995} wisdom {H6195}: and, ye fools {H3684}, be ye of an understanding {H995} heart {H3820}.

You who don't direct your lives, understand caution; as for you, you fools, get some common sense!

O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.

O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

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Cross-References

  • Proverbs 1:22 (5 votes)

    How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

  • Acts 26:18 (4 votes)

    To open their eyes, [and] to turn [them] from darkness to light, and [from] the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

  • Revelation 3:17 (4 votes)

    Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

  • Revelation 3:18 (4 votes)

    I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

  • Proverbs 1:4 (3 votes)

    To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9 (3 votes)

    ¶ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

  • 1 Corinthians 6:11 (3 votes)

    And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.