Proverbs 3:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

This will give strength to your flesh, and new life to your bones.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 21:24 : 24 His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.
  • Ps 147:3 : 3 He makes the broken-hearted well, and puts oil on their wounds.
  • Prov 4:22 : 22 For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
  • Prov 16:24 : 24 Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.
  • Isa 1:6 : 6 The body, from head to foot, is all diseased; it is a mass of open wounds, marks of blows, and broken flesh: the flow of blood has not been stopped, and no oil has been put on the wounds.
  • Jer 30:12-13 : 12 For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter. 13 There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.
  • Ezek 16:4-5 : 4 As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands. 5 No eye had pity on you to do any of these things to you or to be kind to you; but you were put out into the open country, because your life was hated at the time of your birth.

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