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Hebrew Names Version

Proverbs 4:22

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Health Promised;   Health-Disease;   Life;   Life-Death;   Promises, Divine;   Righteousness;   Sickness;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Flesh;   Life;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Health;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Health;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amulet;   Shemoneh 'Esreh;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 4;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For they are life to those who find them,and health to one’s whole body.
King James Version
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
English Standard Version
For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
New Century Version
They are the key to life for those who find them; they bring health to the whole body.
New English Translation
for they are life to those who find them and healing to one's entire body.
Amplified Bible
For they are life to those who find them, And healing and health to all their flesh.
New American Standard Bible
For they are life to those who find them, And healing to all their body.
World English Bible
For they are life to those who find them, And health to their whole body.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.
Legacy Standard Bible
For they are life to those who find themAnd healing to all his flesh.
Berean Standard Bible
For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
Contemporary English Version
Knowing these teachings will mean true life and good health for you.
Complete Jewish Bible
for they are life to those who find them and health to their whole being.
Darby Translation
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Easy-to-Read Version
These words are the secret of life and health to all who discover them.
George Lamsa Translation
For they are life to him who finds them, and health to all his flesh.
Good News Translation
They will give life and health to anyone who understands them.
Lexham English Bible
For they are life to those who find them and healing to the entire body.
Literal Translation
for they are life to those who find them, and healing to all his flesh.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For they are life vnto all those that finde the, and health vnto all their bodies.
American Standard Version
For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.
Bible in Basic English
For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
King James Version (1611)
For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they are life vnto those that finde them, and health vnto all their bodyes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
English Revised Version
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For tho ben lijf to men fyndynge thoo, and heelthe `of al fleisch.
Update Bible Version
For they are life to those that find them, And health to all their flesh.
Webster's Bible Translation
For they [are] life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
New King James Version
For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.
New Living Translation
for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.
New Life Bible
For they are life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.
New Revised Standard
For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, life, they are, to them who find them, - and, to every part of one's flesh, they bring healing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
Revised Standard Version
For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.
Young's Literal Translation
For life they [are] to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For they are life to those who find them And health to all their body.

Contextual Overview

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. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it is the wellspring of life. 24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you. 25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you. 26 Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established. 27 Don't turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

life: Proverbs 4:4, Proverbs 4:10

health: Heb. medicine, Proverbs 3:8, *marg. Proverbs 12:18, Jeremiah 33:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:47 - General Proverbs 3:22 - life Proverbs 4:6 - love Proverbs 16:24 - health 1 Peter 3:10 - love

Cross-References

Exodus 25:3
This is the offering which you shall take from them: gold, silver, brass,
Numbers 31:22
however the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,
Deuteronomy 8:9
a land in which you shall eat bread without scarceness, you shall not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you may dig copper.
Deuteronomy 33:25
Your bars shall be iron and brass; As your days, so shall your strength be.
2 Chronicles 2:7
Now therefore send me a man skillful to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and blue, and who knows how to engrave [all manner of] engravings, [to be] with the skillful men who are with me in Yehudah and in Yerushalayim, whom David my father did provide.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they [are] life unto those that find them,.... The words or doctrines of Christ, whose type Solomon was, are to be found in the field of the Scriptures, by diligent searching for them; and being found, they are the means of spiritual life, and of maintaining it, and of showing the way, and bringing unto eternal life; see John 6:63;

and health to all their flesh; the whole man, soul and body, as they are the means of preserving the body from many diseases, which intemperance, lust, and luxury, lead unto, and are curbed by these; so of healing the various diseases of the soul; and, however, of directing to a panacea for them, to the blood of Christ, which is the true balm of Gilead, and he the physician of souls. Moreover, the doctrines of the Gospel are the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus; they are sound, salutary, and healthful, and serve to keep the soul in good plight, and the body too. The Septuagint render it, "to all flesh": that is, to all men; but this is not true in fact; for to some the Gospel of Christ, through contempt and rejection of it, is the savour of death unto death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Health - See the Proverbs 3:8 note.


 
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