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 into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste:

More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.

How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Within thee

For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me.

He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."

Fitted

Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.

For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.

General references

A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.