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Proverbs 5:13
Proverbs 5:13 is verse 13 of Proverbs chapter 5, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
King James Version
And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
World English Bible
I haven’t obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!
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Proverbs 5:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible
11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
12 and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
13 I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
14 I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Luke 15:18I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
1 Thessalonians 4:8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 5:12But we ask you, brothers, to acknowledge those who work diligently among you, who preside over you in the Lord and give you instruction.
1 Thessalonians 5:13In love, hold them in highest regard because of their work. Live in peace with one another.
Hebrews 13:7Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you. Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith.