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23 Acquire[a] truth and do not sell it—
wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 23:23 tn Heb “buy” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NLT); CEV “Invest in truth.”sn The sixteenth saying is an instruction to buy/acquire the kind of life that pleases God and brings joy to parents. “Getting truth” would mean getting training in the truth, and getting wisdom and understanding would mean developing the perception and practical knowledge of the truth.

23 Buy truth and don’t sell it;
    buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

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