Proverbs 26:23 - King James 2000

Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Burning lips and a wicked heart Are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Burning lips [uttering insincere words of love] and a wicked heart are like an earthen vessel covered with the scum thrown off from molten silver [making it appear to be solid silver].

American Standard Version (1901)

Fervent lips and a wicked heart Are like an earthen vessel overlaid with silver dross.

Common English Bible

Smooth lips and an evil heart are like silver coating on clay.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In the same manner as an earthen vessel, if it were adorned with impure silver, conceited lips are allied with a wicked heart.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthen vessel adorned with silver dross.

Proverbs 26:23 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 10:18

He that hides hatred with lying lips, and he that utters a slander, is a fool.

Proverbs 23:7

For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.

Proverbs 25:4

Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the refiner.

Proverbs 26:25

When he speaks graciously, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Proverbs 27:6

Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come unto you as the people comes, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their covetousness.

Matthew 23:27

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like unto whitewashed sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Luke 11:39

And the Lord said unto him, Now do you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.