Proverbs 26:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Burning lips and a wicked heart Are like a potsherd covered with silver dross. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Burning lips [uttering insincere words of love] and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel covered with the scum thrown off from molten silver [making it appear to be solid silver]. American Standard Version (1901) Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross. Common English Bible Smooth lips and an evil heart are like silver coating on clay. Catholic Public Domain Version In the same manner as an earthen vessel, if it were adorned with impure silver, conceited lips are allied with a wicked heart. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthen vessel adorned with silver dross. |
for he is like one who is inwardly reckoning. “Eat and drink!” he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
Take away the dross from the silver, and the smith has material for a vessel;
when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart;
And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with their lips they show much love, but their heart is set on their gain.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of extortion and wickedness.