How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Proverbs 22:18 - New Revised Standard Version for it will be pleasant 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 words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey, and drippings of the honeycomb.
On the lips of one who has understanding wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who lacks sense.
The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense.
The wise of heart is called perceptive, and pleasant speech increases persuasiveness.
for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
So that your trust may be in the Lord, I have made them known to you today—yes, to you.
Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right;
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.
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.
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.’ ”
Through him, then, let us continually offer a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.