Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

New American Standard Bible

Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.

King James Version

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Holman Bible

Guard your heart above all else,
for it is the source of life.

International Standard Version

Above everything else guard your heart, because from it flow the springs of life.

A Conservative Version

Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

American Standard Version

Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

Amplified


Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.

Bible in Basic English

And keep watch over your heart with all care; so you will have life.

Darby Translation

Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.

Julia Smith Translation

Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.

King James 2000

Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Lexham Expanded Bible

With all vigilance, keep your heart, for from it [comes] the source of life.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Keep thine heart with all diligence, for thereupon hangeth life.

NET Bible

Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.

New Heart English Bible

Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

The Emphasized Bible

Above all that must be guarded, keep thou thy heart, for, out of it, are the issues of life.

Webster

Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

World English Bible

Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

Youngs Literal Translation

Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
with all diligence
משׁמר 
Mishmar 
Usage: 22

for out of it are the issues
תּצאה תּוצאה 
Towtsa'ah 
Usage: 23

Devotionals

Devotionals about Proverbs 4:23

References

Hastings

Images Proverbs 4:23

Prayers for Proverbs 4:23

Context Readings

Staying The Course

22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to all his flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from you a wicked mouth, and devious lips put far from you.


Cross References

Proverbs 4:7

Wisdom is the main thing; get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Matthew 12:34-35

Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Luke 6:45

A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth the good. And an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth the evil. For out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

Deuteronomy 4:9

Only take heed to yourself and keep your soul carefully, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. But teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons.

Psalm 139:23-24

Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts,

Proverbs 3:21

My son, do not let them depart from your eyes; keep sound wisdom and judgment,

Proverbs 11:16

A gracious woman keeps honor, and the strong keep riches.

Proverbs 13:3

He who keeps his mouth keeps his life; he who opens his lips wide, it is ruin to him.

Proverbs 22:5

Thorns and snares are in the way of the perverse; he who keeps his soul shall be far from them.

Proverbs 23:19

My son, hear and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

Proverbs 28:26

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool; but whoever walks wisely, he shall be delivered.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for their owners to their hurt.

Mark 7:21-23

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

Mark 14:38

Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. Truly the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Hebrews 12:15

looking diligently lest any fail of the grace of God, or lest any root of bitterness springing up disturb you, and by it many are defiled,

James 1:14-15

But each one is tempted by his lusts, being drawn away and seduced by them.

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