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Proverbs 8:7

ProverbsPro 8
For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.
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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Abomination;   Jesus Continued;   Wisdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Error;   Sin;   Sin-Saviour;   Transgression;   The Topic Concordance - Frowardness;   Knowledge;   Perversion;   Righteousness;   Understanding;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ethics;   Proverbs, Book of;   Trinity;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Wisdom;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mutter;   Wisdom;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 29;  

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

1 Is not wisdom crying out, and the voice of knowledge sounding? 2 At the top of the highways, at the meeting of the roads, she takes her place; 3 Where the roads go into the town her cry goes out, at the doorways her voice is loud: 4 I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men. 5 Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart. 6 Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright. 7 For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me. 8 All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them. 9 They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge. 10 Take my teaching, and not silver; get knowledge in place of the best gold.
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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

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Cross-References

Leviticus 11:15
Every raven, and birds of that sort;
1 Kings 17:4
The water of the stream will be your drink, and by my orders the ravens will give you food there.
1 Kings 17:6
And the ravens took him bread in the morning and meat in the evening; and the water of the stream was his drink.
Job 38:41
Who gives in the evening the meat he is searching for, when his young ones are crying to God; when the young lions with loud noise go wandering after their food?
Psalms 147:9
He gives food to every beast, and to the young ravens in answer to their cry.
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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.

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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.

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