Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For [it is] pleasant if you guard them {within you}; together they will be ready upon your lips.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
Holman Bible
and if
International Standard Version
for it is pleasant when you treasure them within you and have them ready on your lips.
A Conservative Version
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.
American Standard Version
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
Amplified
For it will be pleasant if you keep them in mind [incorporating them as guiding principles];
Let them be ready on your lips [to guide and strengthen yourself and others].
Bible in Basic English
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
Darby Translation
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
Julia Smith Translation
For pleasant things if thou shalt watch them in thy belly; they shall be prepared together for thy lips.
King James 2000
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be fitted on your lips.
Modern King James verseion
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be fitted in your lips,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
for it is a pleasant thing if thou keep it in thine heart, and practice it in thy mouth -
NET Bible
For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.
New Heart English Bible
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
The Emphasized Bible
For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.
Webster
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
World English Bible
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
Youngs Literal Translation
For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 22:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Words Of The Wise
17 Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise; you shall apply your heart to my teaching. 18 For [it is] pleasant if you guard them {within you}; together they will be ready upon your lips. 19 [In order] for your trust to be in Yahweh, I have made [them] known to you {today}--even you.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 2:10
for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.
Job 32:18-19
for I am full of words; {the spirit within me} urges me.
Psalm 19:10
more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey [in the] comb.
Psalm 119:13
With my lips I have told [of] all the ordinances of your mouth.
Psalm 119:103
How smooth [are] your words to my palate, more than honey in my mouth.
Psalm 119:111
I have taken as my own your testimonies forever, for they [are] the joy of my heart.
Psalm 119:162
I [am] rejoicing over your word, like one who finds great spoil.
Psalm 119:171
Let my lips pour out praise, because you teach me your statutes.
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.
Proverbs 8:6
Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips.
Proverbs 10:13
On the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod [is] for the back of one who lacks {sense}.
Proverbs 10:21
Lips of righteousness feed many, but fools {die for lack of sense}.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise will spread knowledge, but the heart of fools, not so.
Proverbs 16:21
The wise of heart is called perceptive, but he who is pleasant of lips will increase persuasiveness.
Proverbs 24:13-14
My child, eat honey, for [it is] good, and the dripping of the honeycomb [is] sweet to your taste.
Proverbs 25:11
Apples of gold in a setting of silver is a matter spoken at its proper time.
Jeremiah 15:16
Your words were found and I ate them, and your words became to me as jubilation, even as the joy of my heart, for your name is called on me, Yahweh God of hosts.
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of [the] priest should guard knowledge, and they should seek instruction from his mouth, for he [is] the messenger of Yahweh of hosts.
John 7:38
the one who believes in me. Just as the scripture said, 'Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.'"
Hebrews 13:15
Therefore through him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise {continually} to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.