Proverbs 2:4 Cross References
Proverbs 2:4
4: Search for them as you would for lost money or hidden treasure.
Matthew 13:44
- "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that a man discovered hidden in a field. In his excitement, he hid it again and sold everything he owned to get enough money to buy the field--and to get the treasure, too!
Psalms 119:127
- Truly, I love your commands more than gold, even the finest gold.
Proverbs 16:16
- How much better to get wisdom than gold, and understanding than silver!
Proverbs 8:18
- Unending riches, honor, wealth, and justice are mine to distribute.
- My gifts are better than the purest gold, my wages better than sterling silver!
Matthew 19:29
- And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or property, for my sake, will receive a hundred times as much in return and will have eternal life.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
- This is the case of a man who is all alone, without a child or a brother, yet who works hard to gain as much wealth as he can. But then he asks himself, "Who am I working for? Why am I giving up so much pleasure now?" It is all so meaningless and depressing.
Proverbs 23:23
- Get the truth and don't ever sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and discernment.
Proverbs 3:14
- For the profit of wisdom is better than silver, and her wages are better than gold.
- Wisdom is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.
Job 28:12
- "But do people know where to find wisdom? Where can they find understanding?
- No one knows where to find it, for it is not found among the living.
- `It is not here,' says the ocean. `Nor is it here,' says the sea.
- "It cannot be bought for gold or silver.
- Its value is greater than all the gold of Ophir, greater than precious onyx stone or sapphires.
Psalms 119:14
- I have rejoiced in your decrees as much as in riches.
Psalms 119:72
- Your law is more valuable to me than millions in gold and silver!
Job 3:21
- They long for death, and it won't come. They search for death more eagerly than for hidden treasure.
Matthew 19:21
- Jesus told him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me."
- But when the young man heard this, he went sadly away because he had many possessions.
Matthew 6:19
- "Don't store up treasures here on earth, where they can be eaten by moths and get rusty, and where thieves break in and steal.
- Store your treasures in heaven, where they will never become moth-eaten or rusty and where they will be safe from thieves.
- Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be.
Luke 16:8
- "The rich man had to admire the dishonest rascal for being so shrewd. And it is true that the citizens of this world are more shrewd than the godly are.
Psalms 19:10
- They are more desirable than gold, even the finest gold. They are sweeter than honey, even honey dripping from the comb.