Proverbs 22:18 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; They shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ 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)

¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ It will be pleasant if you keep the words in you, if you have them ready on your lips.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ 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

¹⁸ Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:

Proverbs 22:18 Cross References

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 119:111

Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever; For they are the rejoicing of my heart.

Psalm 119:13

With my lips have I declared All the judgements of thy mouth.

Psalm 119:162

I rejoice at thy word, As one that findeth great spoil.

Psalm 119:171

Let my lips utter praise; For thou teachest me thy statutes.

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: Sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Proverbs 10:13

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.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous feed many: But the foolish die for lack of understanding.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: But the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

Proverbs 16:21

The wise in heart shall be called prudent: And the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning.

Proverbs 2:10

For wisdom shall enter into thine heart, And knowledge shall be pleasant unto thy soul;

Proverbs 22:19

That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.

Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken Is like apples of gold in baskets of silver.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

Proverbs 4:20

My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear unto my sayings.

Proverbs 4:21

Let them not depart from thine eyes; Keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Proverbs 8:6

Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.

Jeremiah 15:16

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.

Malachi 2:7

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.

John 7:38

He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.

Hebrews 13:15

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.