How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Proverbs 22:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; They shall withal be fitted in thy lips. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For it will be pleasant if you keep them in your mind [believing them]; your lips will be accustomed to [confessing] them. American Standard Version (1901) For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips. Common English Bible It will be pleasant if you keep the words in you, if you have them ready on your lips. Catholic Public Domain Version It shall be beautiful to you, if you preserve it in your inner self, and it shall overflow from your lips, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips: |
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of my heart.
More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
In the lips of him that hath discernment wisdom is found: But a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
The lips of the righteous feed many: But the foolish die for lack of understanding.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: But the heart of the foolish doeth not so.
The wise in heart shall be called prudent: And the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.
For wisdom shall enter into thine heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;
That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.
Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Through him then let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which make confession to his name.