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Wise words are like deep waters;
    wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook.

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The words of the mouth are deep waters,(A)
    but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream.

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Though good advice lies deep within the heart,
    a person with understanding will draw it out.

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The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters,(A)
    but one who has insight draws them out.

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11 The words of the godly are a life-giving fountain;
    the words of the wicked conceal violent intentions.

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11 The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life,(A)
    but the mouth of the wicked conceals violence.(B)

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Let your conversation be gracious and attractive[a] so that you will have the right response for everyone.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:6 Greek and seasoned with salt.

Let your conversation be always full of grace,(A) seasoned with salt,(B) so that you may know how to answer everyone.(C)

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14 The instruction of the wise is like a life-giving fountain;
    those who accept it avoid the snares of death.

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14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,(A)
    turning a person from the snares of death.(B)

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14 But those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

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14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.(A) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water(B) welling up to eternal life.”(C)

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16 Let the message about Christ, in all its richness, fill your lives. Teach and counsel each other with all the wisdom he gives. Sing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to God with thankful hearts.

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16 Let the message of Christ(A) dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom(B) through psalms,(C) hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.(D)

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38 Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”[a] 39 (When he said “living water,” he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him. But the Spirit had not yet been given,[b] because Jesus had not yet entered into his glory.)

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Footnotes

  1. 7:37-38 Or “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from the heart of anyone who believes in me.’”
  2. 7:39 Several early manuscripts read But as yet there was no Spirit. Still others read But as yet there was no Holy Spirit.

38 Whoever believes(A) in me, as Scripture has said,(B) rivers of living water(C) will flow from within them.”[a](D) 39 By this he meant the Spirit,(E) whom those who believed in him were later to receive.(F) Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. John 7:38 Or me. And let anyone drink 38 who believes in me.” As Scripture has said, “Out of him (or them) will flow rivers of living water.”

34 You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.

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34 You brood of vipers,(A) how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks(B) what the heart is full of.

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    for I will speak to you in a parable.
I will teach you hidden lessons from our past—

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I will open my mouth with a parable;(A)
    I will utter hidden things, things from of old—

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22 Discretion is a life-giving fountain to those who possess it,
    but discipline is wasted on fools.

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22 Prudence is a fountain of life to the prudent,(A)
    but folly brings punishment to fools.

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