Cross references

Proverbs 23:35

“They struck me, but I feel no pain!

They beat me, but I did not know it!

When can I wake up

to search for another drink?”

Proverbs 23:35 BSB

Proverbs 23:35 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 5:3 (6 votes) and Isaiah 56:12 (5 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Genesis 19 to 2 Peter 2.

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Which verses does Proverbs 23:35 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

  2. “Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”

  3. If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.” …

  4. As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

  5. Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.

  6. But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

  7. Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

  8. because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.

  9. I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

  10. Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

Which verses point to Proverbs 23:35?

The 10 strongest of 22.