Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Forsake the foolish and live; and go in the way of understanding.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Holman Bible
pursue the way of understanding.
International Standard Version
Leave your naive ways, and live. Walk in the path of understanding."
A Conservative Version
Forsake ye simpleness, and live, and walk in the way of understanding.
American Standard Version
Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.
Amplified
“Leave [behind] your foolishness [and the foolish] and live,
And walk in the way of insight and understanding.”
Bible in Basic English
Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.
Darby Translation
Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.
Julia Smith Translation
Forsake ye the foolish, and live; and go straight in the way of understanding.
King James 2000
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Lay aside simplicity and live; walk in the way of understanding."
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Forsake ignorance, and ye shall live: and see that ye go in the way of understanding."
NET Bible
Abandon your foolish ways so that you may live, and proceed in the way of understanding."
New Heart English Bible
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."
The Emphasized Bible
Forsake the simple ones, and live, and advance in the way of understanding.
Webster
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
World English Bible
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding."
Youngs Literal Translation
Forsake ye, the simple, and live, And be happy in the way of understanding.
Themes
Alliance and society with the enemies of God » Blessedness of forsaking
Feasts » Of new moons » Spiritual
Spiritual food » Prepared in abundance for believers (select reading pr 91-6)
Spiritual » Feasts » Prepared in abundance for believers (select reading pr 91-6)
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 9:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wisdom's Banquet
5 Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. 6 Forsake the foolish and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 One rebuking a scorner gets shame to himself; and one rebuking a wicked one gets himself a blemish.
Cross References
Psalm 26:4-6
I have not sat with lying men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.
Psalm 45:10
Listen, O daughter, and look; and bow down your ear; and forget your own people and your father's house.
Psalm 119:115
Depart from me, you evil-doers, for I will keep the Commandments of my God.
Proverbs 4:11
I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in the right paths.
Proverbs 4:14-15
Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not into the way of evil.
Proverbs 8:35
For whoever finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor from Jehovah.
Proverbs 9:11
For by Me your days shall be multiplied, and the years of your life shall be increased.
Proverbs 10:17
He who keeps instruction is in the way of life; but he who refuses reproof goes astray.
Proverbs 13:20
He who walks with the wise shall be wise, but a companion with fools shall be destroyed.
Matthew 7:13-14
Go in through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in through it.
Luke 13:24
Strive to enter in at the narrow gate. For I say to you, many will seek to enter in and shall not be able.
Acts 2:40
And with many other words he earnestly testified and exhorted, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice from Heaven, saying, Come out of her, My people, that you may not be partakers of her sins, and that you may not receive of her plagues.