Proverbs 23:16

Geneva Bible (1560)

And my reynes shall reioyce, when thy lips speake righteous things.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 8:6 : 6 Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.
  • Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no corrupt comunicatio proceed out of your mouths: but that which is good, to ye vse of edifying, that it may minister grace vnto the hearers.
  • Eph 5:4 : 4 Neither filthinesse, neither foolish talking, neither iesting, which are things not comely, but rather giuing of thankes.
  • Col 4:4 : 4 That I may vtter it, as it becommeth mee to speake.
  • Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we sinne all. If any man sinne not in word, he is a perfect man, and able to bridle all the body.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 23:15
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    15My sonne, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall reioyce, and I also.

  • Prov 16:13
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    13Righteous lips are the delite of Kings, and the King loueth him that speaketh right things.

  • Prov 8:6-8
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    6Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.

    7For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.

    8All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.

  • Job 33:3
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    3My words are in the vprightnesse of mine heart, & my lippes shall speake pure knowledge.

  • Prov 22:18
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    18For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

  • Prov 16:23-24
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    23The heart of the wise guideth his mouth wisely, and addeth doctrine to his lippes.

    24Faire wordes are as an hony combe, sweetenesse to the soule, and health to the bones.

  • Ps 119:171-172
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    171My lippes shall speake praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

    172My tongue shall intreate of thy word: for all thy commaundements are righteous.

  • Ps 37:30
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    30The mouth of the righteous will speake of wisedome, and his tongue will talke of iudgement.

  • Prov 16:21
    74%

    21The wise in heart shall bee called prudent: and the sweetenesse of the lippes shall increase doctrine.

  • Ps 71:23
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    23My lippes will reioyce when I sing vnto thee, and my soule, which thou hast deliuered.

  • Ps 119:13
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    13With my lippes haue I declared all the iudgements of thy mouth.

  • Prov 27:11
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    11My sonne, be wise, and reioyce mine heart, that I may answere him that reprocheth me.

  • Ps 63:5
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    5My soule shalbe satisfied, as with marowe and fatnesse, and my mouth shall praise thee with ioyfull lippes,

  • Ps 49:3
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    3My mouth shal speake of wisdome, and the meditation of mine heart is of knowledge.

  • Job 27:4
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    4My lips surely shall speake no wickednesse, and my tongue shall vtter no deceite.

  • Prov 16:1
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    1The preparations of the heart are in man: but the answere of the tongue is of the Lord.

  • Ps 45:1
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    1To him that excelleth on Shoshannim a song of loue to giue instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. Mine heart will vtter forth a good matter: I wil intreat in my workes of the King: my tongue is as the pen of a swift writer.

  • Prov 15:23
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    23A ioy commeth to a man by the answere of his mouth: and how good is a word in due seaso?

  • Prov 23:24-26
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    24The father of the righteous shal greatly reioyce, and hee that begetteth a wise childe, shall haue ioy of him.

    25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.

    26My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.

  • Acts 2:26
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    26Therefore did mine heart reioyce, and my tongue was glad, and moreouer also my flesh shall rest in hope,

  • Prov 16:10
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    10A diuine sentence shalbe in the lips of the King: his mouth shall not trasgresse in iudgement.

  • Prov 24:26
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    26They shall kisse the lippes of him that answereth vpright wordes.

  • Prov 22:11
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    11Hee that loueth purenesse of heart for the grace of his lippes, the King shalbe his friend.

  • Ps 16:7
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    7I wil prayse the Lorde, who hath giuen me counsell: my reines also teach me in the nightes.

  • Ps 51:15
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    15Open thou my lippes, O Lorde, and my mouth shall shewe foorth thy praise.

  • Prov 10:31-32
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    31The mouth of the iust shall be fruitfull in wisdome: but the tongue of the froward shall be cut out.

    32The lips of the righteous knowe what is acceptable: but the mouth of the wicked speaketh froward things.

  • Prov 15:30
    72%

    30The light of the eyes reioyceth the heart, and a good name maketh the bones fat.

  • Prov 23:17
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    17Let not thine heart bee enuious against sinners: but let it bee in the feare of the Lorde continually.

  • Job 8:21
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    21Till he haue filled thy mouth with laughter, and thy lippes with ioy.

  • Prov 2:10
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    10When wisdome entreth into thine heart, and knowledge deliteth thy soule,

  • Ps 32:11
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    11Be glad ye righteous, and reioyce in the Lorde, and be ioyfull all ye, that are vpright in heart.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be made dumme, which cruelly, proudly and spitefully speake against the righteous.

  • Ps 73:21
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    21Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:

  • Prov 18:20
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    20With the fruite of a mans mouth shall his belly be satisfied, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled.

  • Prov 23:19
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    19O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.

  • Ps 107:42
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    42The righteous shall see it, and reioyce, and all iniquitie shall stoppe her mouth.

  • Ps 16:9
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    9Wherefore mine heart is glad and my tongue reioyceth: my flesh also doeth rest in hope.

  • Ps 141:3
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    3Set a watch, O Lorde, before my mouth, and keepe the doore of my lips.

  • Ps 119:162
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    162I reioyce at thy worde, as one that findeth a great spoyle.

  • Prov 12:14
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    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.

  • Ps 35:28
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    28And my tongue shall vtter thy righteousnesse, and thy praise euery day.

  • Prov 5:2
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    2That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

  • Prov 12:22
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    22The lying lips are an abomination to the Lord: but they that deale truely are his delite.