Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness.
New American Standard Bible
And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
King James Version
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Holman Bible
and wickedness is detestable to my lips.
International Standard Version
For my mouth speaks the truth wickedness is detestable to me.
A Conservative Version
For my mouth shall utter truth. And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
American Standard Version
For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Amplified
“For my mouth will utter truth,
And wickedness is repulsive and loathsome to my lips.
Bible in Basic English
For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.
Darby Translation
For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Julia Smith Translation
For my palate shall meditate the truth, and evil is the abomination of my lips.
King James 2000
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Lexham Expanded Bible
My mouth will utter truth, and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips.
Modern King James verseion
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is hateful to my lips.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For my throat shall be talking of the truth, and my lips abhor ungodliness.
NET Bible
For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.
New Heart English Bible
For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
The Emphasized Bible
For, faithfulness, shall my mouth softly utter, but, the abomination of my lips, shall be lawlessness;
Webster
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
World English Bible
For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
Themes
Error » Definition of » Despised by saints
Frowardness » What has nothing froward in it
Knowledge » Those that find knowledge
Perversion » What has nothing perverse in it
Sin » Defined » Despised by saints
The fruit of righteousness » What is righteous
Transgression » Sin, definition of » Despised by saints
Interlinear
Hagah
'emeth
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 8:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wisdom Calls
6 Hearken, for noble things I speak, And the opening of my lips is uprightness. 7 For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips is wickedness. 8 In righteousness are all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing in them is froward and perverse.
Cross References
John 8:14
Jesus answered and said to them, 'And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.
Psalm 37:30
The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.
Job 36:4
For, truly, my words are not false, The perfect in knowledge is with thee.
Proverbs 12:22
An abomination to Jehovah are lying lips, And stedfast doers are his delight.
Proverbs 16:12
An abomination to kings is doing wickedness, For by righteousness is a throne established.
Proverbs 29:27
An abomination to the righteous is the perverse man, And an abomination to the wicked is the upright in the way!
John 1:17
for the law through Moses was given, the grace and the truth through Jesus Christ did come;
John 8:45-46
'And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.
John 14:6
Jesus saith to him, 'I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
John 17:17
sanctify them in Thy truth, Thy word is truth;
John 18:37
Pilate, therefore, said to him, 'Art thou then a king?' Jesus answered, 'Thou dost say it; because a king I am, I for this have been born, and for this I have come to the world, that I may testify to the truth; every one who is of the truth, doth hear my voice.'
Revelation 3:14
And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful and true -- the chief of the creation of God;