Proverbs 22:18

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 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 Yahweh of Hosts.
  • 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 make confession 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%

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

  • Prov 22:19-20
    2 verses
    78%

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

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

  • Prov 23:15-16
    2 verses
    77%

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

    16 Yes, my heart will rejoice, When your lips speak what is right.

  • Prov 4:20-22
    3 verses
    77%

    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.

    22 For 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.

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

  • Prov 16:21
    76%

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

  • Prov 2:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    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 2:1-2
    2 verses
    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 16:23-24
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Prov 3:21-22
    2 verses
    76%

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

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

  • Prov 22:17
    75%

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

  • Prov 3:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

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

    3 Don't let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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

  • Prov 4:24
    75%

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

  • Prov 6:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

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

    22 When 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%

    3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Prov 1:9
    74%

    9 For they will be a garland to grace your head, And chains around your neck.

  • Ps 31:20
    74%

    20 In 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%

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

  • Ps 19:11
    73%

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

  • Ps 34:13
    73%

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

  • Prov 21:23
    73%

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

  • Deut 11:18
    73%

    18 Therefore shall you 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%

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

  • Prov 18:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Prov 3:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

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

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

  • Prov 16:13
    72%

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

  • Prov 20:15
    72%

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

  • Prov 8:6
    72%

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

  • Job 20:13
    72%

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

  • Ps 141:3
    72%

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

  • Ps 119:171
    72%

    171 Let my lips utter praise, For you teach me your statutes.

  • Prov 23:12
    72%

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

  • Prov 4:5
    72%

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

  • Prov 15:23
    71%

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

  • Prov 14:3
    71%

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

  • Prov 24:14
    71%

    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.