Proverbs 5:2

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 45:2 : 2 You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.
  • Ps 71:15 : 15 My mouth will tell about your righteousness, and of your salvation all day, though I don't know its full measure.
  • Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips, I have declared all the ordinances of your mouth.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.
  • Prov 15:2 : 2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.
  • Prov 16:23 : 23 The heart of the wise instructs his mouth, and adds learning to his lips.
  • Song 4:11 : 11 Your lips, my bride, drip like the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under your tongue. The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
  • Mal 2:6-7 : 6 The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, 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 Yahweh of Armies.
  • Prov 20:15 : 15 There is gold and abundance of rubies; but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 2:10-11
    2 verses
    82%

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

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

  • Prov 5:3
    81%

    3 For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

  • Prov 22:17-18
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    79%

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

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

  • Prov 5:1
    79%

    1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

  • Prov 7:5
    78%

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

  • Prov 3:21
    78%

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

  • Prov 6:24-25
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    24 to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

    25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

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

  • Prov 4:5-6
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    76%

    5 Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don't forget, neither swerve from the words of my mouth.

    6 Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 15:7
    76%

    7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

  • Prov 16:21
    76%

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

  • Prov 2:1-2
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    76%

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

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

  • Prov 15:2
    76%

    2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

  • Prov 4:24
    76%

    24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.

  • Prov 20:15
    76%

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

  • Prov 10:14
    75%

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

  • Prov 5:7
    74%

    7 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don't depart from the words of my mouth.

  • Prov 14:3
    74%

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

  • Prov 12:23
    74%

    23 A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.

  • Prov 5:20
    74%

    20 For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

  • Ps 34:13
    74%

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

  • Ps 141:3
    74%

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

  • Prov 2:5-6
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    5 then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

    6 For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

  • Prov 13:3
    73%

    3 He who guards his mouth guards his soul. One who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

  • Prov 1:4-5
    2 verses
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    4 to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:

    5 that the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; that the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel:

  • Prov 10:19
    73%

    19 In the multitude of words there is no lack of disobedience, but he who restrains his lips does wisely.

  • Prov 23:12
    73%

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

  • Prov 2:16
    73%

    16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

  • Prov 14:7
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    7 Stay away from a foolish man, for you won't find knowledge on his lips.

  • Prov 7:1
    73%

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

  • Prov 19:27
    73%

    27 If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

  • Prov 10:32
    73%

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

  • Prov 21:23
    72%

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

  • Eccl 10:12
    72%

    12 The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.

  • Prov 24:14
    72%

    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 23:19
    72%

    19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path!

  • Prov 18:15
    72%

    15 The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

  • Prov 4:10
    72%

    10 Listen, my son, and receive my sayings. The years of your life will be many.

  • Prov 2:20
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Job 15:5
    71%

    5 For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

  • Prov 17:27
    71%

    27 He who spares his words has knowledge. He who is even tempered is a man of understanding.