Proverbs 22:18

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are 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 decrees are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.

Psalm 119:13

With my lips I declare all the ordinances of your mouth.

Psalm 119:162

I rejoice at your word like one who finds great spoil.

Psalm 119:171

My lips will pour forth praise, because you teach me your statutes.

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Proverbs 10:13

On the lips of one who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who lacks sense.

Proverbs 10:21

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

Proverbs 15:7

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the minds of fools.

Proverbs 16:21

The wise of heart is called perceptive, and pleasant speech increases persuasiveness.

Proverbs 2:10

for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

Proverbs 22:19

So that your trust may be in the Lord, I have made them known to you today, yes, to you.

Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Proverbs 3:17

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

Proverbs 4:20

My child, be attentive to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

Proverbs 4:21

Do not let them escape from your sight; keep them within your heart.

Proverbs 8:6

Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right,

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.

Malachi 2:7

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

John 7:38

and let the one who believes in me drink. As the scripture has said, ‘Out of the believer’s heart shall flow rivers of living water.’ ”

Hebrews 13:15

Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.