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22 For they are life to those who find them,(A)
    bringing health to one’s whole being.
23 With all vigilance guard your heart,
    for in it are the sources of life.
24 [a]Dishonest mouth put away from you,
    deceitful lips put far from you.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:24–27 In vv. 20–21 the faculties of hearing (ear) and seeing (eye) take in the teaching and the heart stores and ponders it, so in the second half of the poem, vv. 24–27, the faculties of speech, sight, and walking enable the disciple to put the teaching into practice.

22 for they are life to those who find them
    and health to one’s whole body.(A)
23 Above all else, guard(B) your heart,
    for everything you do flows from it.(C)
24 Keep your mouth free of perversity;
    keep corrupt talk far from your lips.

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22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

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