Verse 18

For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 2:10 : 10 For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
  • Prov 3:17 : 17 Her ways are very pleasant, and all her paths are peaceful.
  • Prov 8:6 : 6 Listen, for I will speak excellent things, and my lips will utter what is right.
  • Prov 10:13 : 13 Wisdom is found in the words of the discerning person, but the one who lacks sense will be disciplined.
  • Prov 10:21 : 21 The teaching of the righteous feeds many, but fools die for lack of sense.
  • Prov 15:7 : 7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge, but not so the heart of fools.
  • Prov 16:21 : 21 The one who is wise in heart is called discerning, and kind speech increases persuasiveness.
  • Prov 24:13-14 : 13 Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste. 14 Likewise, know that wisdom is sweet to your soul; if you have found it, you have a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
  • Prov 25:11 : 11 Like apples of gold in settings of silver, so is a word skillfully spoken.
  • Jer 15:16 : 16 As your words came to me I drank them in, and they filled my heart with joy and happiness because I belong to you, O LORD God of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Mal 2:7 : 7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • John 7:38 : 38 let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says,‘From within him will flow rivers of living water.’”
  • Heb 13:15 : 15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of our lips, acknowledging his name.
  • Job 32:18-19 : 18 For I am full of words, and the spirit within me constrains me. 19 Inside I am like wine which has no outlet, like new wineskins ready to burst!
  • Ps 19:10 : 10 They are of greater value than gold, than even a great amount of pure gold; they bring greater delight than honey, than even the sweetest honey from a honeycomb.
  • Ps 119:13 : 13 With my lips I proclaim all the regulations you have revealed.
  • Ps 119:103 : 103 Your words are sweeter in my mouth than honey!
  • Ps 119:111 : 111 I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.
  • Ps 119:162 : 162 I rejoice in your instructions, like one who finds much plunder.
  • Ps 119:171 : 171 May praise flow freely from my lips, for you teach me your statutes.