Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options
Close NCB

Proverbs 4:22-24
New Catholic Bible

22 For they are life to those who find them
    and provide health to their entire being.
23 Guard your heart with all possible vigilance,
    for from it flow the wellsprings of life.[a]
24 Turn away from the mouth that deceives
    and keep your distance from lips that mislead.[b]

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart . . . wellsprings of life: those who store up good things in their hearts ensure that their words and actions will be good. Jesus said, “The mouth speaks from the abundance of the heart” (Mt 12:34).
  2. Proverbs 4:24 See note on Prov 2:12.
Listen to Proverbs 4:22-24
Close NIV

Proverbs 4:22-24
New International Version

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.

Read full chapter
Next
Proverbs 3
Proverbs 5
Next
dropdown
New Catholic Bible (NCB)

Copyright © 2019 by Catholic Book Publishing Corp. All rights reserved.

St. Joseph New Catholic Bible
New International Version (NIV)

Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.

July Summer Surge

More on the NIV