Proverbs 13:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁷ A bad messenger plunges men into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: But a faithful ambassador is health.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful ambassador brings healing.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ A wicked messenger falleth into evil; But a faithful ambassador is health.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Wicked messengers fall into trouble, but a reliable one brings healing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ The messenger of the impious will fall into evil. But a faithful ambassador shall prosper.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.

Proverbs 13:17 Cross References

Proverbs 10:26

Like vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to those who send him.

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction, but he who heeds reproof is honored.

Proverbs 25:13

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.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind brings forth rain; and a backbiting tongue, angry looks.

Proverbs 26:6

He who sends a message by the hand of a fool cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.

Jeremiah 23:28

Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? says the Lord.

Ezekiel 3:18

If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

Numbers 31:8

They slew the kings of Midian with the rest of their slain, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian; and they also slew Balaam the son of Beor with the sword.

1 Corinthians 4:2

Moreover it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word; but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:20

So we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

1 Timothy 1:12

I thank him who has given me strength for this, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful by appointing me to his service,

2 Timothy 2:2

and what you have heard from me before many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.