Proverbs 22:18

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Summary

Proverbs 22:18

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

It is

Within thee

Job 32:18

John 7:38

Fitted

General references

Proverbs 18:20

Bible References

It is

for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.

Her ways [are] ways of pleasantness, and all her paths [are] peace.

My child, eat honey, for [it is] good, and the dripping of the honeycomb [is] sweet to your taste.

more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey [in the] comb.

How smooth [are] your words to my palate, more than honey in my mouth.

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.

Within thee

for I am full of words; {the spirit within me} urges me.

the one who believes in me. Just as the scripture said, 'Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.'"

Fitted

Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips.

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 wise will spread knowledge, but the heart of fools, not so.

The wise of heart is called perceptive, but he who is pleasant of lips will increase persuasiveness.

Apples of gold in a setting of silver is a matter spoken at its proper time.

With my lips I have told [of] all the ordinances of your mouth.

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.

Therefore through him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise {continually} to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.

General references

From the fruit of a man's mouth, his stomach will be satisfied, as for the yield of his lips, it will satisfy.