How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
Proverbs 22:18 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; They shall withal be fitted in thy lips. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips. Common English Bible It will be pleasant if you keep the words in you, if you have them ready on your lips. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips: |
How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, the LORD, God Tzeva'ot.
For the Kohen's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of Armies.
He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water.*
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.