Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
The unjust messenger shall fall into evil: and a messenger of faithfulness is healing.
New American Standard Bible
But
King James Version
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Holman Bible
but a trustworthy courier brings healing.
International Standard Version
An evil messenger stumbles into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
A Conservative Version
A wicked messenger falls into evil, but a faithful ambassador is health.
American Standard Version
A wicked messenger falleth into evil; But a faithful ambassador is health.
Amplified
A wicked messenger falls into hardship,
But a faithful ambassador brings healing.
Bible in Basic English
A man taking false news is a cause of trouble, but he who gives news rightly makes things well.
Darby Translation
A wicked messenger falleth into evil; but a faithful ambassador is health.
King James 2000
A wicked messenger falls into trouble: but a faithful ambassador is health.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A messenger of wickedness will fall into trouble, but an envoy of the faithful [brings] healing.
Modern King James verseion
A wicked messenger falls into mischief, but a faithful ambassador is health.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
An ungodly messenger bringeth mischief; but a faithful ambassador is wholesome.
NET Bible
An unreliable messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
New Heart English Bible
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
The Emphasized Bible
A lawless messenger, falleth into mischief, but, a faithful herald, bringeth healing.
Webster
A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful embassador is health.
World English Bible
A wicked messenger falls into trouble, but a trustworthy envoy gains healing.
Youngs Literal Translation
A wicked messenger falleth into evil, And a faithful ambassador is healing.
Themes
Ambassadors » Other references to
Faith/faithfulness » The faithful
Interlinear
Naphal
References
Easton
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 13:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Wise Son Lives Righteously
16 Every prudent one will do in knowledge: and the foolish one will spread folly. 17 The unjust messenger shall fall into evil: and a messenger of faithfulness is healing. 18 Instruction dismisses poverty and shame: and he watching reproof shall be honored.
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 25:13
As the cold of snow in the day of harvest a faithful messenger to those sending him: he shall restore the soul of his lord.
Proverbs 10:26
As vinegar to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes, so is the slothful one to those sending him.
Proverbs 25:23
The north wind will set free the rain, and an angry face, a hidden tongue.
Proverbs 26:6
He drank violence, cutting off the feet, sending words by the hand of the foolish one.
Jeremiah 23:13-16
And I saw folly in the prophets of Shomeron; they prophesied in Baal, and they will cause my people Israel to wander.
Jeremiah 23:28
The prophet whom with him a dream, he will recount a dream; and whom my word with him, he will speak my word in truth. What to the straw with the grain? says Jehovah.
Ezekiel 3:18
In my saying to the unjust, Dying, thou shalt die; and thou admonished him not, and thou spakest not to admonish the unjust from his way of injustice to preserve him alive; this unjust one shall die in his iniquity, and his blood I will seek from thy hand.
Ezekiel 33:7-8
And thou son of man, I gave thee a watchman to the house of Israel; and thou heardest the word from my mouth, and thou didst warn them from me.
1 Corinthians 4:2
And besides it is sought in stewards, that any one be found faithful.
2 Corinthians 2:17
For we are not as the many adulterating the word of God: but as of purity, but as of God, before the face of God speak we in Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:20
For Christ therefore are we ambassadors, as of God beseeching by us: we pray for the sake of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.
1 Timothy 1:12
And I am grateful to Christ Jesus our Lord, having strengthened me, for he deemed me faithful, having set me in the service;
2 Timothy 2:2
And what thou hast heard from me by many witnesses, these things lay by for faithful men, who will be sufficient to teach others also.