Proverbs 5:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

That you may keep discretion, and that your lips may preserve knowledge.

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  • Ps 45:2 : 2 You are more beautiful than the children of men: grace is poured into your lips: therefore God has blessed you forever.
  • Ps 71:15 : 15 My mouth shall show forth your righteousness and your salvation all the day; for I do not know the limits thereof.
  • Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips I have declared all the judgments of Your mouth.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of wisdom.
  • Prov 15:2 : 2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge appropriately, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the heart of the foolish does not.
  • Prov 16:23 : 23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
  • Song 4:11 : 11 Your lips, O my spouse, drop as the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.
  • Mal 2:6-7 : 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found on his lips; he walked with me in peace and equity and turned many away from iniquity. 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.
  • Prov 20:15 : 15 There is gold and a multitude of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Prov 2:10-11
    2 verses
    82%

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

    11Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you;

  • Prov 5:3
    81%

    3For the lips of a strange woman drip as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

  • Prov 22:17-18
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    79%

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

    18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be ready on your lips.

  • Prov 5:1
    79%

    1My son, attend to my wisdom, and incline your ear to my understanding:

  • Prov 7:5
    78%

    5That they may keep you from the strange woman, from the stranger who flatters with her words.

  • Prov 3:21
    78%

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

  • Prov 6:24-25
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    24To keep you from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

    25Do not lust after her beauty in your heart; neither let her take you with her eyelids.

  • Prov 16:23
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    23The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.

  • Prov 4:5-6
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    76%

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

    6Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 15:7
    76%

    7The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but the heart of the foolish does not.

  • Prov 16:21
    76%

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

  • Prov 2:1-2
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    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 15:2
    76%

    2The tongue of the wise uses knowledge appropriately, but the mouth of fools pours out foolishness.

  • Prov 4:24
    76%

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

  • Prov 20:15
    76%

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

  • Prov 10:14
    75%

    14Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

  • Prov 5:7
    74%

    7Hear me now therefore, O children, and do not depart from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 14:3
    74%

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

  • Prov 12:23
    74%

    23A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.

  • Prov 5:20
    74%

    20And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

  • Ps 34:13
    74%

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

  • Ps 141:3
    74%

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

  • Prov 2:5-6
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    74%

    5Then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.

    6For the LORD gives wisdom; from His mouth come knowledge and understanding.

  • Prov 13:3
    73%

    3He who guards his mouth keeps his life, but he who opens wide his lips shall have destruction.

  • Prov 1:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.

    5A wise man will hear and increase in learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel;

  • Prov 10:19
    73%

    19In the multitude of words, there is no lack of sin, but he who restrains his lips is wise.

  • Prov 23:12
    73%

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

  • Prov 2:16
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    16To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the stranger who flatters with her words;

  • Prov 14:7
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    7Leave the presence of a foolish man, when you do not perceive in him the lips of knowledge.

  • Prov 7:1
    73%

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

  • Prov 19:27
    73%

    27Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to err from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 10:32
    73%

    32The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked speaks perversity.

  • Prov 21:23
    72%

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

  • Eccl 10:12
    72%

    12The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow him up.

  • Prov 24:14
    72%

    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.

  • Prov 23:19
    72%

    19Hear, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.

  • Prov 18:15
    72%

    15The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

    10Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of your life will be many.

  • Prov 2:20
    72%

    20That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Job 15:5
    71%

    5For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty.

  • Prov 17:27
    71%

    27He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of a calm spirit.