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Let not loyalty and faithfulness forsake you;
    bind them about your neck,
    write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Let love and faithfulness(A) never leave you;
    bind them around your neck,
    write them on the tablet of your heart.(B)

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13 He who goes about as a talebearer reveals secrets,
    but he who is trustworthy in spirit keeps a thing hidden.

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13 A gossip betrays a confidence,(A)
    but a trustworthy person keeps a secret.(B)

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22 Do they not err that devise evil?
    Those who devise good meet loyalty and faithfulness.

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22 Do not those who plot evil go astray?(A)
    But those who plan what is good find[a] love and faithfulness.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:22 Or show

By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
    and by the fear of the Lord a man avoids evil.

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Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for;
    through the fear of the Lord(A) evil is avoided.(B)

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17 A friend loves at all times,
    and a brother is born for adversity.

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17 A friend loves at all times,
    and a brother is born for a time of adversity.(A)

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22 What is desired in a man is loyalty,
    and a poor man is better than a liar.

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22 What a person desires is unfailing love[a];
    better to be poor than a liar.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 19:22 Or Greed is a person’s shame

Many a man proclaims his own loyalty,
    but a faithful man who can find?

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Many claim to have unfailing love,
    but a faithful person who can find?(A)

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28 Loyalty and faithfulness preserve the king,
    and his throne is upheld by righteousness.[a]

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  1. Proverbs 20:28 Gk: Heb loyalty

28 Love and faithfulness keep a king safe;
    through love(A) his throne is made secure.(B)

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26 My son, give me your heart,
    and let your eyes observe[a] my ways.
27 For a harlot is a deep pit;
    an adventuress is a narrow well.
28 She lies in wait like a robber
    and increases the faithless among men.

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  1. Proverbs 23:26 Another reading is delight in

Saying 18

26 My son,(A) give me your heart
    and let your eyes delight in my ways,(B)
27 for an adulterous woman is a deep pit,(C)
    and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
28 Like a bandit she lies in wait(D)
    and multiplies the unfaithful among men.

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13 Like the cold of snow in the time of harvest
    is a faithful messenger to those who send him,
    he refreshes the spirit of his masters.

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13 Like a snow-cooled drink at harvest time
    is a trustworthy messenger to the one who sends him;
    he refreshes the spirit of his master.(A)

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19 Trust in a faithless man in time of trouble
    is like a bad tooth or a foot that slips.

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19 Like a broken tooth or a lame foot
    is reliance on the unfaithful in a time of trouble.

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20 A faithful man will abound with blessings,
    but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.

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20 A faithful person will be richly blessed,
    but one eager to get rich will not go unpunished.(A)

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