Proverbs 8:7

Amplified Bible

"For my mouth will utter truth, And wickedness is repulsive and loathsome to my lips.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For my mouth tells the truth,and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

Hebrew Names Version
For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

King James Version
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

English Standard Version
for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

New Century Version
What I say is true, I refuse to speak evil.

New English Translation
For my mouth speaks truth, and my lips hate wickedness.

New American Standard Bible
"For my mouth will proclaim truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

World English Bible
For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.

Legacy Standard Bible
For my mouth will utter truth;And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Berean Standard Bible
For my mouth will speak the truth, and wickedness is detestable to my lips.

Contemporary English Version
I always speak the truth and refuse to tell a lie.

Complete Jewish Bible
My mouth says what is true, because my lips detest evil.

Darby Translation
For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Easy-to-Read Version
My words are true, and I will not say anything that is wrong.

George Lamsa Translation
For my mouth shall speak truth, and lying lips are an abomination before me.

Good News Translation
What I say is the truth; lies are hateful to me.

Lexham English Bible
My mouth will utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Literal Translation
For my mouth shall speak of truth, and wickedness is hateful to my lips.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For my throte shal be talkynge of ye trueth, & my lippes abhorre vngodlynesse.

American Standard Version
For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Bible in Basic English
For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For my mouth shall utter truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

King James Version (1611)
For my mouth shall speake truth, and wickednesse is an abomination to my lippes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For my mouth shall be talking of the trueth, and my lippes abhorre vngodlynesse.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For my throat shall meditate truth; and false lips are an abomination before me.

English Revised Version
For my mouth shall utter truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
My throte schal bithenke treuthe; and my lippis schulen curse a wickid man.

Update Bible Version
For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is disgusting to my lips.

Webster's Bible Translation
For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips.

New King James Version
For my mouth will speak truth; Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

New Living Translation
for I speak the truth and detest every kind of deception.

New Life Bible
For my mouth will speak the truth. My lips hate wrong-doing.

New Revised Standard
for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, faithfulness, shall my mouth softly utter, but, the abomination of my lips, shall be lawlessness;

Douay-Rheims Bible
My mouth shall meditate truth, and my lips shall hate wickedness.

Revised Standard Version
for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Young's Literal Translation
For truth doth my mouth utter, And an abomination to my lips [is] wickedness.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For my mouth will utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

Contextual Overview

¹Does not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice? ²On the top of the heights beside the way, Where the paths meet, wisdom takes her stand; ³Beside the gates, at the entrance to the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries out: ⁴"To you, O men, I call, And my voice is directed to the sons of men. ⁵"O you naive or inexperienced [who are easily misled], understand prudence and seek astute common sense; And, O you [closed-minded, self-confident] fools, understand wisdom [seek the insight and self-discipline that leads to godly living]. ⁶"Listen, for I will speak excellent and noble things; And the opening of my lips will reveal right things. ⁷"For my mouth will utter truth, And wickedness is repulsive and loathsome to my lips.⁸"All the words of my mouth are in righteousness (upright, in right standing with God); There is nothing contrary to truth or perverted (crooked) in them. ⁹"They are all straightforward to him who understands [with an open and willing mind], And right to those who find knowledge and live by it. ¹⁰"Take my instruction rather than [seeking] silver, And take knowledge rather than choicest gold,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

my mouth: Job 36:4, John 1:17, John 8:14, John 8:45, John 8:46, John 14:6, John 17:17, John 18:37, Revelation 3:14

an abomination to: Heb. the abomination of, Proverbs 12:22, Proverbs 16:12, Proverbs 29:27

Reciprocal: Job 13:6 - General Job 32:20 - I will open Job 33:3 - the Ephesians 4:25 - speak

Cross-References

Leviticus 11:15
every kind of raven,

1 Kings 17:4
"You shall drink from the brook, and I have commanded the ravens to sustain you there [with food]."

1 Kings 17:6
And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he would drink from the brook.

Job 38:41
"Who provides prey for the raven When its young cry to God And wander about without food?

Psalms 147:9
He gives to the beast its food, And to the young ravens that for which they cry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For my mouth shall speak truth,.... And nothing but the truth; and nothing more or less can be spoken by Wisdom, or Christ, who is truth itself; nothing else can come out of his mouth, or drop from his lips; all the doctrines of Christ are agreeable to the Scriptures of truth, and are what the Spirit of truth leads into; and the whole is called "the word of truth": there are many very particular and special truths, but the principal one is salvation by Jesus Christ;

and wickedness [is] an abomination to my lips; the sin of lying more especially, as opposed to truth; this is detestable to wisdom, what Christ never suffered his lips to utter; for no lie is of the truth, but of Satan the father of lies; and, as it is abhorred by Christ, it ought to be by all good men.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 8:7. My mouth shall speak truth — TRUTH, without falsity, or any mixture of error, shall be the whole matter of my discourse.