Proverbs 27:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.

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  • Ps 133:2 : 2 It is like oil of great price on the head, flowing down over the face, even Aaron's face: coming down to the edge of his robe;
  • Song 4:10 : 10 How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!
  • John 12:3 : 3 Then Mary, taking a pound of perfumed oil of great value, put it on the feet of Jesus and made them dry with her hair: and the house became full of the smell of the perfume.
  • Acts 28:15 : 15 And the brothers, when they had news of us, came out from town as far as Appii Forum and the Three Taverns to have a meeting with us: and Paul, seeing them, gave praise to God and took heart.
  • 2 Cor 2:15-16 : 15 For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction; 16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
  • Prov 7:17 : 17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.
  • Prov 15:23 : 23 A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
  • Prov 16:21 : 21 The wise-hearted will be named men of good sense: and by pleasing words learning is increased.
  • Prov 16:23-24 : 23 The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips. 24 Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
  • Song 1:3 : 3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
  • Song 3:6 : 6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?
  • Exod 18:17-24 : 17 And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good. 18 Your strength and that of the people will be completely used up: this work is more than you are able to do by yourself. 19 Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him: 20 Teaching them his rules and his laws, guiding them in the way they have to go, and making clear to them the work they have to do. 21 But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens; 22 And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you. 23 If you do this, and God gives approval, then you will be able to go on without weariness, and all this people will go to their tents in peace. 24 So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.
  • Judg 9:9 : 9 But the olive-tree said to them, Am I to give up my wealth of oil, by which men give honour to God, and go waving over the trees?
  • 1 Sam 23:16-17 : 16 And Saul's son Jonathan went to David in Horesh, and made his hands strong in God; 17 And said to him, Have no fear, for Saul my father will not get you into his power; and you will be king of Israel, and I will be by your side, and my father Saul is certain of this.
  • Ezra 10:2-4 : 2 And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answering, said to Ezra, We have done evil against our God, and have taken as our wives strange women of the peoples of the land: but still there is hope for Israel in this question. 3 Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law. 4 Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.
  • Ps 23:5 : 5 You make ready a table for me in front of my haters: you put oil on my head; my cup is overflowing.
  • Ps 45:7-8 : 7 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings. 8 Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.
  • Ps 104:15 : 15 And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

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  • Prov 27:16-17
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    24There are friends who may be a man's destruction, but there is a lover who keeps nearer than a brother.

  • Prov 27:5-8
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    5Better is open protest than love kept secret.

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  • Prov 17:17-18
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    17A friend is loving at all times, and becomes a brother in times of trouble.

    18A man without sense gives his hand in an agreement, and makes himself responsible before his neighbour.

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    8Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

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    1<A Song of the going up. Of David.> See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

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    23A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!

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    13A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

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    25Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.

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    15And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

  • Prov 16:24
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    24Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

  • Prov 27:19
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    19Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.

  • Prov 15:30
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    30The light of the eyes is a joy to the heart, and good news makes the bones fat.

  • Eccl 10:1
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    22A glad heart makes a healthy body, but a crushed spirit makes the bones dry.

  • Ps 45:8
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    8Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

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    3Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

  • Prov 17:8-9
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    8An offering of money is like a stone of great price in the eyes of him who has it: wherever he goes, he does well.

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    1A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

  • Prov 27:14
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  • Prov 7:17-18
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    17I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

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    10For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;

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    16A man's offering makes room for him, letting him come before great men.

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    10How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

  • Mic 7:5
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    20Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

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    13His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

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    24Do not be friends with a man who is given to wrath; do not go in the company of an angry man:

  • Eccl 11:9
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    9Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

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    15You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

  • Eccl 7:3
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    3Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.