Proverbs 22:18

New International Version

for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips.

Cross References

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Psalm 119:111

Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:13

With my lips I recount all the laws that come from your mouth.

Psalm 119:162

I rejoice in your promise like one who finds great spoil.

Psalm 119:171

May my lips overflow with praise, for you teach me your decrees.

Psalm 19:10

They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the honeycomb.

Proverbs 10:13

Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of one who has no sense.

Proverbs 10:21

The lips of the righteous nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense.

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the hearts of fools are not upright.

Proverbs 16:21

The wise in heart are called discerning, and gracious words promote instruction.

Proverbs 2:10

For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Proverbs 22:19

So that your trust may be in the Lord, I teach you today, even you.

Proverbs 25:11

Like apples of gold in settings of silver is a ruling rightly given.

Proverbs 3:17

Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace.

Proverbs 4:20

My son, pay attention to what I say; turn your ear to my words.

Proverbs 4:21

Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart;

Proverbs 8:6

Listen, for I have trustworthy things to say; I open my lips to speak what is right.

Jeremiah 15:16

When your words came, I ate them; they were my joy and my heart’s delight, for I bear your name, Lord God Almighty.

Malachi 2:7

“For the lips of a priest ought to preserve knowledge, because he is the messenger of the Lord Almighty and people seek instruction from his mouth.

John 7:38

Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”

Hebrews 13:15

Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.