18 for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart
    and have all of them ready on your lips.

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18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

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16 When your words came, I ate(A) them;
    they were my joy and my heart’s delight,(B)
for I bear your name,(C)
    Lord God Almighty.

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16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.

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10 For wisdom will enter your heart,(A)
    and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

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10 When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

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The lips of the wise spread knowledge,(A)
    but the hearts of fools are not upright.

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The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

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21 The lips of the righteous nourish many,
    but fools die for lack of sense.(A)

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21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.

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Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say;
    I open my lips to speak what is right.

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Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

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103 How sweet are your words to my taste,
    sweeter than honey(A) to my mouth!(B)

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103 How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

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15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice(A) of praise—the fruit of lips(B) that openly profess his name.

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15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

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38 Whoever believes(A) in me, as Scripture has said,(B) rivers of living water(C) will flow from within them.”[a](D)

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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.”

38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

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11 Like apples[a] of gold in settings of silver(A)
    is a ruling rightly given.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 25:11 Or possibly apricots

11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

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Saying 26

13 Eat honey, my son, for it is good;
    honey from the comb is sweet to your taste.
14 Know also that wisdom is like honey for you:
    If you find it, there is a future hope for you,
    and your hope will not be cut off.(A)

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13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:

14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.

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21 The wise in heart are called discerning,
    and gracious words promote instruction.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:21 Or words make a person persuasive

21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

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13 Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning,(A)
    but a rod is for the back of one who has no sense.(B)

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13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.

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