Proverbs 15:33
Good News Translation
Reverence for the LORD is an education in itself. You must be humble before you can ever receive honors.

New Revised Standard Version
The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility goes before honor.

Contemporary English Version
Showing respect to the LORD will make you wise, and being humble will bring honor to you.

New American Bible
The fear of the LORD is training for wisdom, and humility goes before honors.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.

fear

Proverbs 1:7 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 8:13 Counsel and equity is mine, prudence is mine, strength is mine.

Job 28:28 And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.

Psalm 34:11 Come, children, hearken to me: I will teach you the fear of the Lord.

Psalm 111:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. A good understanding to all that do it: his praise continueth for ever and ever.

and

Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.

Proverbs 25:6,7 Appear not glorious before the king, and stand not in the place of great men. . . .

Proverbs 29:23 Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.

Luke 14:11 Because every one that exalteth himself shall be humbled: and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Philippians 2:5-11 For let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: . . .

James 4:10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord: and he will exalt you.

1 Peter 5:5 In like manner, ye young men, be subject to the ancients. And do you all insinuate humility one to another: for God resisteth the proud, but to the humble he giveth grace.

Context
A Gentle Answer Turns Away Wrath
32He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his own soul: but he that yieldeth to reproof, possesseth understanding. 33The fear of the Lord is the lesson of wisdom: and humility goeth before glory.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:2
To understand the words of prudence: and to receive the instruction of doctrine, justice, and judgment, and equity:

Proverbs 1:7
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Proverbs 15:32
He that rejecteth instruction, despiseth his own soul: but he that yieldeth to reproof, possesseth understanding.

Proverbs 16:1
It is the part of man to prepare the soul: and of the Lord to govern the tongue.

Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction, the heart of a man is exalted: and before he be glorified, it is humbled.

Proverbs 29:23
Humiliation followeth the proud: and glory shall uphold the humble of spirit.

Proverbs 15:32
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