Proverbs 18:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

The words of a mans mouth are like deepe waters, and the welspring of wisdome is like a flowing riuer.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:5 : 5 The counsell in the heart of man is like deepe waters: but a man that hath vnderstanding, will drawe it out.
  • Prov 10:11 : 11 The mouth of a righteous man is a welspring of life: but iniquitie couereth the mouth of the wicked.
  • Prov 13:14 : 14 The instruction of a wise man is as the welspring of life, to turne away from the snares of death.
  • Prov 16:22 : 22 Vnderstading is welspring of life vnto them that haue it: and the instruction of fooles is folly.
  • Ps 78:2 : 2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will declare high sentences of olde.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 O generations of vipers, howe can you speake good things, when ye are euill? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
  • John 4:14 : 14 But whosoeuer drinketh of the water that I shall giue him, shall neuer be more a thirst: but the water that I shall giue him, shalbe in him a well of water, springing vp into euerlasting life.
  • John 7:38-39 : 38 Hee that beleeueth in mee, as saith the Scripture, out of his bellie shall flowe riuers of water of life. 39 ( This spake hee of the Spirite which they that beleeued in him, should receiue: for the holy Ghost was not yet giuen, because that Iesus was not yet glorified.)
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the worde of Christ dwell in you plenteously in all wisdome, teaching and admonishing your owne selues, in Psalmes, and hymnes, and spirituall songs, singing with a grace in your hearts to the Lord.
  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speach be gracious alwayes, and powdred with salt, that ye may know how to answere euery man.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Prov 20:5
    79%

    5The counsell in the heart of man is like deepe waters: but a man that hath vnderstanding, will drawe it out.

  • Prov 10:11
    77%

    11The mouth of a righteous man is a welspring of life: but iniquitie couereth the mouth of the wicked.

  • Prov 25:26
    76%

    26A righteous man falling downe before the wicked, is like a troubled well, & a corrupt spring.

  • Jas 3:10-11
    2 verses
    75%

    10Out of one mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing: my brethren, these things ought not so to be.

    11Doeth a fountaine send forth at one place sweete water and bitter?

  • Eccl 10:12-13
    2 verses
    75%

    12The words of ye mouth of a wise man haue grace: but the lippes of a foole deuoure himselfe.

    13The beginning of the wordes of his mouth is foolishnesse, and the latter ende of his mouth is wicked madnesse.

  • Prov 5:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.

    16Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.

  • Prov 15:2
    74%

    2The tongue of the wise vseth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fooles babbleth out foolishnesse.

  • Prov 16:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22Vnderstading is welspring of life vnto them that haue it: and the instruction of fooles is folly.

    23The heart of the wise guideth his mouth wisely, and addeth doctrine to his lippes.

  • Prov 18:3
    74%

    3When the wicked commeth, then commeth contempt, and with the vile man reproch.

  • Prov 10:31
    73%

    31The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

  • Ps 37:30
    73%

    30The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement.

  • Prov 2:6
    72%

    6For the Lorde giueth wisdome, out of his mouth commeth knowledge and vnderstanding.

  • Prov 27:19
    72%

    19As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

  • Prov 15:4
    72%

    4A wholesome tongue is as a tree of life: but the frowardnes therof is the breaking of ye minde.

  • Prov 10:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19In many wordes there cannot want iniquitie: but he that refrayneth his lippes, is wise.

    20The tongue of the iust man is as fined siluer: but the heart of the wicked is litle worth.

    21The lippes of the righteous doe feede many: but fooles shall die for want of wisedome.

  • Prov 15:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23A ioy commeth to a man by the answere of his mouth: and how good is a word in due seaso?

    24The way of life is on high to the prudent, to auoyde from hell beneath.

  • Prov 18:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20With the fruite of a mans mouth shall his belly be satisfied, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

    21Death & life are in the power of ye tongue, and they that loue it, shal eate the fruite thereof.

  • Prov 12:18
    72%

    18There is that speaketh wordes like the prickings of a sworde: but the tongue of wise men is health.

  • Prov 10:14
    71%

    14Wise men lay vp knowledge: but ye mouth of the foole is a present destruction.

  • Prov 18:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6A fooles lips come with strife, & his mouth calleth for stripes.

    7A fooles mouth is his owne destruction, and his lips are a snare for his soule.

  • Job 28:4
    71%

    4The flood breaketh out against the inhabitant, and the waters forgotten of the foote, being higher then man, are gone away.

  • Prov 16:10
    71%

    10A diuine sentence shalbe in the lips of the King: his mouth shall not trasgresse in iudgement.

  • Prov 15:7
    71%

    7The lippes of the wise doe spread abroade knowledge: but ye heart of the foolish doth not so.

  • Job 38:16
    71%

    16Hast thou entred into the bottomes of the sea? Or hast thou walked to seeke out the depth?

  • Song 4:15
    71%

    15O fountaine of the gardens, O well of liuing waters, and the springs of Lebanon.

  • Prov 25:11
    71%

    11A word spoken in his place, is like apples of golde with pictures of siluer.

  • Prov 12:14
    70%

    14A man shalbe satiate with good things by the fruite of his mouth, and the recompence of a mans hands shall God giue vnto him.

  • Prov 20:15
    70%

    15There is golde, and a multitude of precious stones: but the lips of knowledge are a precious iewel.

  • Prov 14:3
    70%

    3In the mouth of the foolish is the rod of pride: but the lippes of the wise preserue them.

  • Job 26:4
    70%

    4To whom doest thou declare these words? or whose spirit commeth out of thee?

  • Prov 4:5
    70%

    5Get wisedom: get vnderstading: forget not, neither decline from the woordes of my mouth.

  • Prov 17:14
    70%

    14The beginning of strife is as one that openeth the waters: therefore or the contention be medled with, leaue off.

  • Prov 3:20
    70%

    20By his knowledge the depthes are broken vp, and the cloudes droppe downe the dewe.

  • Matt 15:18
    70%

    18But those thinges which proceede out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile the man.

  • Prov 4:24
    70%

    24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

  • Prov 22:14
    70%

    14The mouth of strage women is as a deepe pit: he with whom the Lord is angry, shall fall therein.

  • Luke 6:45
    70%

    45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth foorth good, and an euill man out of the euill treasure of his heart bringeth foorth euill: for of the aboundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.

  • Ps 49:3
    70%

    3My mouth shal speake of wisdome, and the meditation of mine heart is of knowledge.

  • Job 34:3
    69%

    3For the eare tryeth the words, as the mouth tasteth meate.

  • Eccl 9:17
    69%

    17The wordes of the wise are more heard in quietnes, then the crye of him that ruleth among fooles.

  • Prov 15:28
    69%

    28The heart of the righteous studieth to answere: but the wicked mans mouth babbleth euil thinges.