the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Proverbs 22:18
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For it is good to keep these sayings in your heart and always ready on your lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them inside you, If they are established together on your lips.
It will be good to keep these things in mind so that you are ready to repeat them.
For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.
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].
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
That schal be fair to thee, whanne thou hast kept it in thin herte, and it schal flowe ayen in thi lippis.
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.
for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
You will be glad that you know these sayings and can recite them.
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
for it is pleasant to keep them deep within you; have all of them ready on your lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
It will be good for you to remember these words and have them ready when they are needed.
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; let them be established altogether upon thy lips.
For it is a pleasant thing, if thou keepe them within thee; they shall withall be fitted in thy lippes.
For it will be pleasing if you keep them in your heart, so they may be ready on your lips.
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.
For both of them are pleasant, keep them within you; let them together be made ready on your lips.
and you will be glad if you remember them and can quote them.
For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.
Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes:
that thou mayest know that they are good: and if thou lay them to heart, they shall also gladden thee on thy lips.
For it is pleasing if you keep them within youand if they are constantly on your lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
For it is pleasant if you guard them within you; together they will be ready upon your lips.
for they are pleasant when you keep them within you; they shall all be fixed together on your lips,
For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.
for it is a pleasaunt thinge yf thou kepe it in thine herte, and practise it in thy mouth:
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, So that they may be ready on your lips.
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; Let them all be fixed upon your lips,
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, That they may be ready on your lips.
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,That they may be established on your lips.
Contextual Overview
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
After all, Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations on the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using his name.
Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" Abraham replied.
Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.
On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.
So he said to his servants, "You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you."
"God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son," Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.
When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.
Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.
Therefore the Lord , the God of Israel, says, ‘I really did say that your house and your ancestor's house would serve me forever.' But now the Lord says, ‘May it never be! For I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be cursed!
May his fame endure! May his dynasty last as long as the sun remains in the sky! May they use his name when they formulate their blessings! May all nations consider him to be favored by God!
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."
