Parallel Verses
NET Bible
For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on 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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For [it is] pleasant if you guard them {within you}; together they will be ready upon 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 -
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 listen to the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my instruction. 18 For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips. 19 So that your confidence may be in the Lord, I am making them known to you today -- even you.
Phrases
Cross References
Proverbs 2:10
For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
Job 32:18-19
For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me.
Psalm 19:10
They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.
Psalm 119:13
With my lips I proclaim all the regulations you have revealed.
Psalm 119:103
Your words are sweeter in my mouth than honey!
Psalm 119:111
I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.
Psalm 119:162
I rejoice in your instructions, like one who finds much plunder.
Psalm 119:171
May praise flow freely from my lips, for you teach me your statutes.
Proverbs 3:17
Her ways are very pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.
Proverbs 8:6
Listen, for I will speak excellent things, and my lips will utter what is right.
Proverbs 10:13
Wisdom is found in the words of the discerning person, but the one who lacks wisdom will be disciplined.
Proverbs 10:21
The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.
Proverbs 15:7
The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the heart of fools.
Proverbs 16:21
The one who is wise in heart is called discerning, and kind speech increases persuasiveness.
Proverbs 24:13-14
Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
Proverbs 25:11
Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken.
Jeremiah 15:16
As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you.
Malachi 2:7
For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the Lord who rules over all.
John 7:38
let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'"
Hebrews 13:15
Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.