Proverbs 13:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, So is the sluggard to them that send him.

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth correction: But he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.

Proverbs 25:13

As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, So is a faithful messenger to them that send him; For he refresheth the soul of his masters.

Proverbs 25:23

The north wind bringeth forth rain: So doth a backbiting tongue an angry countenance.

Proverbs 26:6

He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool Cutteth off his own feet, and drinketh in damage.

Jeremiah 23:28

The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat? saith the LORD.

Ezekiel 3:18

When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood wilt I require at thine hand.

Numbers 31:8

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

1 Corinthians 4:2

Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For we are not as the many, corrupting the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, speak we in Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:20

We are ambassadors therefore on behalf of Christ, as though God were entreating by us: we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.

1 Timothy 1:12

I thank him that enabled me, even Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he counted me faithful, appointing me to his service;

2 Timothy 2:2

And the things which thou hast heard from me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.