Proverbs 3:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:165 : 165 Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; 30 For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
  • Luke 1:79 : 79 To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.
  • Rom 5:1 : 1 For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • Phil 4:8-9 : 8 For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things. 9 The things which came to you by my teaching and preaching, and which you saw in me, these things do, and the God of peace will be with you.
  • Ps 119:174 : 174 All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.
  • Prov 2:10 : 10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
  • Prov 16:7 : 7 When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.
  • Prov 22:18 : 18 For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
  • Isa 26:3 : 3 The man whose heart is unmoved you will keep in peace, because his hope is in you.
  • Isa 57:19 : 19 I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.
  • Ps 19:10-11 : 10 More to be desired are they than gold, even than much shining gold; sweeter than the dropping honey. 11 By them is your servant made conscious of danger, and in keeping them there is great reward.
  • Ps 25:10 : 10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and good faith for those who keep his agreement and his witness.
  • Ps 37:11 : 11 But the gentle will have the earth for their heritage; they will take their delight in peace without measure.
  • Ps 63:3-5 : 3 Because your mercy is better than life, my lips will give you praise. 4 So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name. 5 My soul will be comforted, as with good food; and my mouth will give you praise with songs of joy;
  • Ps 112:1 : 1 Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.
  • Ps 119:14 : 14 I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.
  • Ps 119:47 : 47 And so that I may take delight in your teachings, to which I have given my love.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are your sayings to my taste! truly, they are sweeter than honey in my mouth!

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    18She is a tree of life to all who take her in their hands, and happy is everyone who keeps her.

  • Prov 3:13-16
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    13Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.

    14For trading in it is better than trading in silver, and its profit greater than bright gold.

    15She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.

    16Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

  • Prov 7:25-27
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    25Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.

    26For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

    27Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.

  • Prov 2:18-20
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    18For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:

    19Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:

    20So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.

    31Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

  • Prov 31:25-28
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    25Strength and self-respect are her clothing; she is facing the future with a smile.

    26Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.

    27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

    28Her children get up and give her honour, and her husband gives her praise, saying,

  • Prov 5:3-6
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    3For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

    5Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;

    6She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.

  • Prov 4:8-11
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    8Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.

    9She will put a crown of grace on your head, giving you a head-dress of glory.

    10Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.

    11I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.

  • Prov 3:2
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    2For they will give you increase of days, years of life, and peace.

  • Prov 8:2
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    2At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place;

  • Prov 2:9-10
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    9Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.

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

  • Prov 31:12
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    12She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.

  • Prov 4:6
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    6Do not give her up, and she will keep you; give her your love, and she will make you safe.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • Prov 7:12
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    12Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

  • Prov 9:14-16
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    14Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,

    15Crying out to those who go by, going straight on their way, she says:

    16Whoever is simple, let him come in here: and to him who is without sense, she says:

  • Prov 3:6
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    6In all your ways give ear to him, and he will make straight your footsteps.

  • Prov 7:8
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    8Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,

  • Prov 5:18-19
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    18Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.

    19As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.

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

  • Prov 12:28
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    28In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.

  • 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.

  • Prov 8:35
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    35For whoever gets me gets life, and grace from the Lord will come to him.

  • Prov 8:20
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    20I go in the road of righteousness, in the way of right judging:

  • Prov 9:4
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    4Whoever is simple, let him come in here; and to him who has no sense, she says:

  • Prov 31:14
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    14She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.

  • Prov 4:22
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    22For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.

  • Ps 128:3
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    3Your wife will be like a fertile vine in the inmost parts of your house: your children will be like olive plants round your table.

  • Prov 7:5
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    5So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.