Proverbs 18:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ A man's belly shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; With the increase of his lips shall he be satisfied.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; And with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ A man's [moral] self shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; and with the consequence of his words he must be satisfied [whether good or evil].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ A man’s belly shall be filled with the fruit of his mouth; With the increase of his lips shall he be satisfied.

Common English Bible

²⁰ The stomach is satisfied by the fruit of the mouth; one’s lips can earn a satisfying income.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ From the fruit of a man's mouth shall his belly be filled. And the harvest of his own lips shall satisfy him.

Proverbs 18:20 Cross References

Proverbs 13:2

A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth: But the soul of the treacherous shall eat violence.

Proverbs 22:18

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.

Proverbs 22:21

To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?

Proverbs 14:14

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: And a good man shall be satisfied from himself.

Proverbs 18:19

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: And such contentions are like the bars of a castle.