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King James Version

Proverbs 22:18

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heart;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Belly;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Israel, History of;   Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom and Wise Men;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Belly;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Belly;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For it is pleasing if you keep them within youand if they are constantly on your lips.
Hebrew Names Version
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.
English Standard Version
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
New American Standard Bible
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, So that they may be ready on your lips.
New Century Version
It will be good to keep these things in mind so that you are ready to repeat them.
Amplified Bible
For it will be pleasant if you keep them in mind [incorporating them as guiding principles]; Let them be ready on your lips [to guide and strengthen yourself and others].
World English Bible
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.
Legacy Standard Bible
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,That they may be established on your lips.
Berean Standard Bible
for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
Contemporary English Version
You will be glad that you know these sayings and can recite them.
Complete Jewish Bible
for it is pleasant to keep them deep within you; have all of them ready on your lips.
Darby Translation
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
Easy-to-Read Version
It will be good for you to remember these words and have them ready when they are needed.
George Lamsa Translation
For both of them are pleasant, keep them within you; let them together be made ready on your lips.
Good News Translation
and you will be glad if you remember them and can quote them.
Lexham English Bible
For it is pleasant if you guard them within you; together they will be ready upon your lips.
Literal Translation
for they are pleasant when you keep them within you; they shall all be fixed together on your lips,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for it is a pleasaunt thinge yf thou kepe it in thine herte, and practise it in thy mouth:
American Standard Version
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
Bible in Basic English
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; let them be established altogether upon thy lips.
King James Version (1611)
For it is a pleasant thing, if thou keepe them within thee; they shall withall be fitted in thy lippes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that thou mayest know that they are good: and if thou lay them to heart, they shall also gladden thee on thy lips.
English Revised Version
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That schal be fair to thee, whanne thou hast kept it in thin herte, and it schal flowe ayen in thi lippis.
Update Bible Version
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them inside you, If they are established together on your lips.
Webster's Bible Translation
For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
New English Translation
For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.
New King James Version
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; Let them all be fixed upon your lips,
New Living Translation
For it is good to keep these sayings in your heart and always ready on your lips.
New Life Bible
For it will be pleasing if you keep them in your heart, so they may be ready on your lips.
New Revised Standard
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:
Revised Standard Version
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
Young's Literal Translation
For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, That they may be ready on your lips.

Contextual Overview

17 Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. 18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. 19 That thy trust may be in the Lord , I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. 20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, 21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it is: Proverbs 2:10, Proverbs 3:17, Proverbs 24:13, Proverbs 24:14, Psalms 19:10, Psalms 119:103, Psalms 119:111, Psalms 119:162, Jeremiah 15:16

within thee: Heb. within thy belly, Job 32:18, Job 32:19, John 7:38

fitted: Proverbs 8:6, Proverbs 10:13, Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs 16:21, Proverbs 25:11, Psalms 119:13, Psalms 119:171, Malachi 2:7, Hebrews 13:15

Reciprocal: Proverbs 16:23 - heart Proverbs 18:20 - General Proverbs 19:8 - he that keepeth Ecclesiastes 10:12 - words Matthew 13:52 - which Luke 6:45 - good man Acts 18:26 - expounded Colossians 4:6 - your

Cross-References

Genesis 18:18
Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 22:1
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
Genesis 22:3
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 22:4
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Genesis 22:5
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Genesis 22:9
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
Genesis 22:10
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
1 Samuel 2:30
Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Psalms 72:17
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun: and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee,.... Or, "in thy belly" a. That is, in thine heart, in the inmost recesses of it; where the words or doctrines of the wise should be received in the love of them, and carefully laid up and retained; which will upon reflection yield much pleasure, like Ezekiel's roll, which was in his belly as honey for sweetness; and which also is very profitable as an antidote against sin, Psalms 119:11;

they shall withal be fitted in thy lips; become them, and be suitable and graceful to them: or, "shall be ordered [and disposed] in" or "by thy lips" b; being received into the heart, and digested there, they shall easily and freely go off the tongue, which shall be as the pen of a ready writer; they shall be delivered in a regular manner, with great liberty and facility; by a good digestion of Gospel truths, and a comfortable experience of them, persons become apt to teach others.

a בבטנך "in ventre tuo", V. L. Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis, Schultens. b כונו "disponantur", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What is “pleasant” in the sight of God and man is the union of two things, belief passing into profession, profession resting on belief.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 22:18. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee

II. The pleasure and profit which may be derived from an attentive hearing.

1. They should be laid up in the heart - stored, treasured up within thee.

2. This will yield high satisfaction and happiness to the soul: "For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee."

3. The man who thus attends to the teachings of wisdom shall gain an experimental knowledge of them, so as to be able to speak of them suitably, pertinently and persuasively. "They shall withal be fitted in thy lips."


 
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