Proverbs 7:4

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Proverbs 7:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

3 Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,

5 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

6 For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.

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Proverbs 2:2

if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,

Proverbs 2:3

if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding,

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,

Proverbs 4:6

Do not forsake wisdom, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.

Proverbs 4:8

Prize her, and she will exalt you; if you embrace her, she will honor you.

Job 17:14

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Song of Solomon 8:1

O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

Matthew 12:49

Pointing to His disciples, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

Luke 11:27

As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!”

Luke 11:28

But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”