Proverbs 22:18

World English Bible (2000)

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:10 : 10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.
  • Prov 8:6 : 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
  • Prov 10:13 : 13 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
  • Prov 16:21 : 21 The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.
  • Prov 24:13-14 : 13 My son, eat honey, for it is good; the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste: 14 so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.
  • Prov 25:11 : 11 A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.
  • 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 Yahweh of Armies.
  • John 7:38 : 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, from within him will flow rivers of living water."
  • Heb 13:15 : 15 Through him, then, let us offer up a sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of lips which proclaim allegiance to his name.
  • Job 32:18-19 : 18 For I am full of words. The spirit within me constrains me. 19 Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 More to be desired are they than gold, yes, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the extract of the honeycomb.
  • Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!
  • Ps 119:111 : 111 I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.
  • Ps 119:162 : 162 I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great spoil.
  • Ps 119:171 : 171 Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Prov 5:2
    79%

    2that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

  • Prov 22:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

    19That your trust may be in Yahweh, I teach you today, even you.

    20Haven't I written to you thirty excellent things of counsel and knowledge,

  • Prov 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

    15My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad, even mine:

    16yes, my heart will rejoice, when your lips speak what is right.

  • Prov 4:20-22
    3 verses
    77%

    20My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings.

    21Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.

    22For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.

  • Job 22:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

    21"Acquaint yourself with him, now, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come to you.

    22Please receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

  • Prov 16:21
    76%

    21The wise in heart shall be called prudent. Pleasantness of the lips promotes instruction.

  • Prov 2:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

    11Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

  • Prov 2:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

    2So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

  • Prov 16:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

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

    24Pleasant words are 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 for your neck.

  • Prov 22:17
    75%

    17Turn your ear, and listen to the words of the wise. Apply your heart to my teaching.

  • Prov 3:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

    3Don't let kindness 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 yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

  • Prov 6:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

    22When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will 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 will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

  • Ps 31:20
    74%

    20In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

  • Prov 7:1
    74%

    1My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

  • Ps 19:11
    73%

    11Moreover by them is your servant warned. In keeping them there is great reward.

  • Ps 34:13
    73%

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

  • 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 you shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for symbols between your eyes.

  • Ps 119:103
    72%

    103How sweet are your promises to my taste, more than honey to my mouth!

  • Prov 18:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20A man's stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.

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

  • Prov 3:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Her ways are ways of pleasantness. All her paths are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

  • Prov 16:13
    72%

    13Righteous lips are the delight of kings. They value one who speaks the truth.

  • Prov 20:15
    72%

    15There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

  • Prov 8:6
    72%

    6Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

  • Job 20:13
    72%

    13though he spare it, and will not let it go, but keep it still within his mouth;

  • Ps 141:3
    72%

    3Set a watch, Yahweh, before my mouth. Keep the door of my lips.

  • Ps 119:171
    72%

    171Let my lips 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. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 15:23
    71%

    23Joy comes to a man with the reply of his mouth. How good is a word at the right time!

  • Prov 14:3
    71%

    3The fool's talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

  • Prov 24:14
    71%

    14so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.