Proverbs 25:11

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Job 4:4

Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have made firm the feeble knees.

Proverbs 15:23

To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!

Proverbs 24:26

He who gives a right answer kisses the lips.

Proverbs 25:10

lest he who hears you bring shame upon you, and your ill repute have no end.

Ecclesiastes 12:10

The Preacher sought to find pleasing words, and uprightly he wrote words of truth.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him that is weary. Morning by morning he wakens, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.

Matthew 12:35

The good man out of his good treasure brings forth good, and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth evil.

1 Samuel 25:35

Then David received from her hand what she had brought him; and he said to her, “Go up in peace to your house; see, I have hearkened to your voice, and I have granted your petition.”