Proverbs 18:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The words of a person’s mouth are like deep waters, and the fountain of wisdom is like a flowing brook.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 20:5 : 5 Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.
  • Prov 10:11 : 11 The speech of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the speech of the wicked conceals violence.
  • Prov 13:14 : 14 Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.
  • Prov 16:22 : 22 Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.
  • Ps 78:2 : 2 I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
  • John 4:14 : 14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”
  • John 7:38-39 : 38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says,‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)
  • Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
  • Col 4:6 : 6 Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 20:5
    79%

    5Counsel in a person’s heart is like deep water, but an understanding person draws it out.

  • Prov 10:11
    77%

    11The speech of the righteous is a fountain of life, but the speech of the wicked conceals violence.

  • Prov 25:26
    76%

    26Like a muddied spring and a polluted well, so is a righteous person who gives way before the wicked.

  • Jas 3:10-11
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    75%

    10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.

    11A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?

  • Eccl 10:12-13
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    12Words and Works of Wise Men and Fools The words of a wise person win him favor, but the words of a fool are self-destructive.

    13At the beginning his words are foolish and at the end his talk is wicked madness,

  • Prov 5:15-16
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    15Drink water from your own cistern and running water from your own well.

    16Should your springs be dispersed outside, your streams of water in the wide plazas?

  • Prov 15:2
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    2The tongue of the wise treats knowledge correctly, but the mouth of the fool spouts out folly.

  • Prov 16:22-23
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    22Insight is like a life-giving fountain to the one who possesses it, but folly leads to the discipline of fools.

    23A wise person’s heart makes his speech wise and it adds persuasiveness to his words.

  • Prov 18:3
    74%

    3When a wicked person arrives, contempt shows up with him, and with shame comes a reproach.

  • Prov 10:31
    73%

    31The speech of the righteous bears the fruit of wisdom, but the one who speaks perversion will be destroyed.

  • Ps 37:30
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    30The godly speak wise words and promote justice.

  • Prov 2:6
    72%

    6For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

  • Prov 27:19
    72%

    19As in water the face is reflected as a face, so a person’s heart reflects the person.

  • Prov 15:4
    72%

    4Speech that heals is like a life-giving tree, but a perverse speech breaks the spirit.

  • Prov 10:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19When words abound, transgression is inevitable, but the one who restrains his words is wise.

    20What the righteous say is like the best silver, but what the wicked think is of little value.

    21The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of sense.

  • Prov 15:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23A person has joy in giving an appropriate answer, and a word at the right time– how good it is!

    24The path of life is upward for the wise person, to keep him from going downward to Sheol.

  • Prov 18:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20From the fruit of a person’s mouth his stomach will be satisfied, with the product of his lips he will be satisfied.

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

  • Prov 12:18
    72%

    18Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.

  • Prov 10:14
    71%

    14Those who are wise store up knowledge, but foolish speech leads to imminent destruction.

  • Prov 18:6-7
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    71%

    6The lips of a fool enter into strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.

    7The mouth of a fool is his ruin, and his lips are a snare for his life.

  • Job 28:4
    71%

    4Far from where people live he sinks a shaft, in places travelers have long forgotten, far from other people he dangles and sways.

  • Prov 16:10
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    10The divine verdict is in the words of the king, his pronouncements must not act treacherously against justice.

  • Prov 15:7
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    7The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the heart of fools.

  • Job 38:16
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    16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?

  • Song 4:15
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    15You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.

  • Prov 25:11
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    11Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken.

  • Prov 12:14
    70%

    14A person will be satisfied with good from the fruit of his words, and the work of his hands will be rendered to him.

  • Prov 20:15
    70%

    15There is gold, and an abundance of rubies, but words of knowledge are like a precious jewel.

  • Prov 14:3
    70%

    3In the speech of a fool is a rod for his back, but the words of the wise protect them.

  • Job 26:4
    70%

    4To whom did you utter these words? And whose spirit has come forth from your mouth?

  • Prov 4:5
    70%

    5Acquire wisdom, acquire understanding; do not forget and do not turn aside from the words I speak.

  • Prov 17:14
    70%

    14Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; abandon strife before it breaks out!

  • Prov 3:20
    70%

    20By his knowledge the primordial sea was broken open, so that the clouds drip down dew.

  • Matt 15:18
    70%

    18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

  • Prov 4:24
    70%

    24Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.

  • Prov 22:14
    70%

    14The mouth of an adulteress is like a deep pit; the one against whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.

  • Luke 6:45
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    45The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

  • Ps 49:3
    70%

    3I will declare a wise saying; I will share my profound thoughts.

  • Job 34:3
    69%

    3For the ear assesses words as the mouth tastes food.

  • Eccl 9:17
    69%

    17Wisdom versus Fools, Sin, and Folly The words of the wise are heard in quiet, more than the shouting of a ruler is heard among fools.

  • Prov 15:28
    69%

    28The heart of the righteous considers how to answer, but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.