Proverbs 13:17

The Passion Translation

An undependable messenger causes a lot of trouble, but the trustworthy and wise messengers release healing wherever they go.

Cross References

Proverbs 10:26

To trust a lazy person to get a job done will be as irritating as smoke in your eyes— as enjoyable as a toothache!

Proverbs 13:18

Poverty and disgrace come to the one who refuses to hear criticism. But the one who is easy to correct is on the path of honor.

Proverbs 25:13

A reliable, trustworthy messenger refreshes the heart of his master, like a gentle snowfall at harvest time.

Proverbs 25:23

As the north wind brings a storm, saying things you shouldn’t brings a storm to any relationship.

Proverbs 26:6

If you choose a fool to represent you, you’re asking for trouble. It will be as bad for you as cutting off your own feet!

Jeremiah 23:28

Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let the one who has my word speak my word faithfully. For what do straw and grain have in common?” declares Yahweh.

Ezekiel 3:18

If I say to wicked people, ‘You are headed toward certain death,’ and you fail to give them warning by not speaking up to warn the evil ones against their evil courses so as to keep them alive, then the wicked ones will die for their sinful deeds. But I will hold you responsible for their deaths.

1 Corinthians 4:2

The most important quality of one entrusted with such secrets is that they are faithful and trustworthy.

2 Corinthians 2:17

For unlike so many, we are not peddlers of God’s Word who water down the message. We are those sent from God with pure motives, who speak in the sight of God from our union with Christ.

2 Corinthians 5:20

We are ambassadors of the Anointed One who carry the message of Christ to the world, as though God were tenderly pleading with them directly through our lips. So we tenderly plead with you on Christ’s behalf, “Turn back to God and be reconciled to him.”

1 Timothy 1:12

My heart spills over with thanks to God for the way he continually empowers me, and to our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One, who found me trustworthy and who authorized me to be his partner in this ministry.

2 Timothy 2:2

And all that you’ve learned from me, confirmed by the integrity of my life, deposit into faithful leaders who are competent to teach the congregations the same revelation.