Proverbs 22:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

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  • Prov 2:10 : 10 When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.
  • Prov 8:6 : 6 Hear, for I will speak of excellent things; and from the opening of my lips will come right things.
  • Prov 10:13 : 13 In the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who is void of understanding.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the heart of the foolish does not.
  • Prov 16:21 : 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.
  • Prov 24:13-14 : 13 My son, eat honey because it is good, and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste. 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.
  • Prov 25:11 : 11 A word spoken at the right time is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts.
  • Mal 2:7 : 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
  • John 7:38 : 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
  • Heb 13:15 : 15 Therefore by Him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name.
  • Job 32:18-19 : 18 For I am full of words; the spirit within me compels me. 19 Behold, my belly is like wine that has no outlet; it is ready to burst like new wineskins.
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
  • Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips I have declared all the judgments of Your mouth.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
  • Ps 119:111 : 111 Your testimonies I have taken as a heritage forever, for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
  • Ps 119:162 : 162 I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure.
  • Ps 119:171 : 171 My lips shall utter praise, for You teach me Your statutes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 5:2
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    2That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 22:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to you this day, even to you.

    20Have I not written to you excellent things in counsels and knowledge,

  • Prov 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15My son, if your heart is wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.

    16Yes, my inmost being shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.

  • Prov 4:20-22
    3 verses
    77%

    20My son, pay attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

    21Do not let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart.

    22For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.

  • Job 22:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21Acquaint yourself with Him now and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

    22Receive, I pray you, the law from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

  • Prov 16:21
    76%

    21The wise in heart shall be called prudent, and the sweetness of the lips increases learning.

  • Prov 2:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10When wisdom enters your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul;

    11Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1My son, if you will receive my words and hide my commandments with you;

    2So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • Prov 16:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

    23The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

    24Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and health to the bones.

  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21My son, let them not depart from your eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

    22So they will be life to your soul, and grace to your neck.

  • Prov 22:17
    75%

    17Incline your ear and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge.

  • Prov 3:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2For they will add to you length of days, long life, and peace.

    3Let not mercy and truth forsake you: bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart:

    4So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  • Prov 4:24
    75%

    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and put perverse lips far from you.

  • Prov 6:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21Bind them continually upon your heart, and tie them around your neck.

    22When you go, it shall lead you; when you sleep, it shall keep you; and when you awake, it shall talk with you.

  • Prov 7:3
    74%

    3Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 1:9
    74%

    9For they shall be a graceful ornament on your head and chains about your neck.

  • Ps 31:20
    74%

    20You shall hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shall keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

  • Prov 7:1
    74%

    1My son, keep my words and store up my commandments with you.

  • Ps 19:11
    73%

    11Moreover by them is your servant warned, and in keeping them there is great reward.

  • Ps 34:13
    73%

    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

  • Prov 21:23
    73%

    23Whoever guards his mouth and his tongue keeps his soul from troubles.

  • Deut 11:18
    73%

    18Therefore, you shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them as a sign on your hand, so they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

  • Ps 119:103
    72%

    103How sweet are Your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

  • Prov 18:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20A man's stomach will be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; he will be filled with the produce of his lips.

    21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

  • Prov 3:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone who retains her.

  • Prov 16:13
    72%

    13Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him who speaks what is right.

  • Prov 20:15
    72%

    15There is gold and a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

  • Prov 8:6
    72%

    6Hear, for I will speak of excellent things; and from the opening of my lips will come right things.

  • Job 20:13
    72%

    13Though he spares it and does not forsake it, but keeps it still within his mouth,

  • Ps 141:3
    72%

    3Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth; keep watch over the door of my lips.

  • Ps 119:171
    72%

    171My lips shall utter praise, for You teach me Your statutes.

  • Prov 23:12
    72%

    12Apply your heart to instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 4:5
    72%

    5Get wisdom, get understanding: do not forget it; neither turn away from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 15:23
    71%

    23A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

  • Prov 14:3
    71%

    3In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

  • Prov 24:14
    71%

    14So shall the knowledge of wisdom be to your soul: when you have found it, then there shall be a reward, and your expectation shall not be cut off.