Proverbs 8:32 {33}
Good News Translation
"Now, young people, listen to me. Do as I say, and you will be happy.

New Revised Standard Version
“And now, my children, listen to me: happy are those who keep my ways.

Contemporary English Version
Pay attention, my children! Follow my advice, and you will be happy.

New American Bible
Now, children, listen to me; happy are they who keep my ways.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.

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Psalm 1:1-4 Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence: . . .

Psalm 119:1,2 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. . . .

Psalm 128:1 A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

Luke 11:28 But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

Context
The Excellence of Wisdom
31Now, therefore, ye children, hear me: blessed are they that keep my ways. 32Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.33Blessed is the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors.…
Cross References
Luke 11:28
But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.

2 Samuel 22:22
Because I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

Job 28:22
Destruction and death have said: With our ears we have heard the fame thereof.

Psalm 18:21
Because I have kept the ways of the Lord; and have not done wickedly against my God.

Psalm 119:1
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord.

Psalm 119:2
Blessed are they that search his testimonies: that seek him with their whole heart.

Psalm 128:1
A gradual canticle. Blessed are all they that fear the Lord: that walk in his ways.

Proverbs 3:13
The purchasing thereof is better than the merchandise of silver, and her fruit than the chief and purest gold:

Proverbs 5:7
Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the doors of her house.

Proverbs 7:24
Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.

Proverbs 29:18
When prophecy shall fail, the people shall be scattered abroad: but he that keepeth the law, is blessed.

Proverbs 8:31
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