Cross references
Proverbs 17:16
Why should the fool have money in his hand
with no intention of buying wisdom?
Proverbs 17:16 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 21:25–26 (7 votes) and Proverbs 23:23 (6 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Deuteronomy 5 to 2 Peter 3.
Which verses does Proverbs 17:16 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Proverbs 21:25–267 votes
The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work. All day long he covets more, but the righteous give without restraint.
- Proverbs 23:236 votes
Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
- Deuteronomy 5:294 votes
If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
- Proverbs 8:4–54 votes
“To you, O men, I call out, and my cry is to the sons of men. O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
- Proverbs 18:154 votes
The heart of the discerning acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks it out.
- Acts 28:26–274 votes
‘Go to this people and say, “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.” For this people’s heart has grown callous; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.’
- 2 Corinthians 6:13 votes
As God’s fellow workers, then, we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain.
- Psalm 81:11–132 votes
But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me. So I gave them up to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices. …
- Proverbs 1:22–232 votes
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge? If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
- Proverbs 9:4–62 votes
“Whoever is simple, let him turn in here!” she says to him who lacks judgment. “Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed. …
- Proverbs 14:62 votes
A mocker seeks wisdom and finds none, but knowledge comes easily to the discerning.
- Isaiah 55:1–32 votes
- Hosea 4:112 votes
- John 3:202 votes
- Acts 13:462 votes
Which verses point to Proverbs 17:16?
The 10 strongest of 17.