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Christian Standard Bible ®

Proverbs 5:2

so that you may maintain discretionand your lips safeguard knowledge.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Discretion;   Prudence-Rashness;   The Topic Concordance - Alertness;   Disobedience;   Whoredom;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Prostitution;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.
King James Version
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
English Standard Version
that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
New Century Version
Be careful to use good sense, and watch what you say.
New English Translation
in order to safeguard discretion, and that your lips may guard knowledge.
Amplified Bible
That you may exercise discrimination and discretion (good judgment), And your lips may reserve knowledge and answer wisely [to temptation].
New American Standard Bible
So that you may maintain discretion And your lips may comply with knowledge.
World English Bible
That you may maintain discretion, That your lips may preserve knowledge.
Geneva Bible (1587)
That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.
Legacy Standard Bible
That you may keep discretionAnd that your lips may guard knowledge.
Berean Standard Bible
that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
Contemporary English Version
you will have sound judgment, and you will always know the right thing to say.
Complete Jewish Bible
so that you will preserve discretion and your lips keep watch over knowledge.
Darby Translation
that thou mayest keep reflection, and that thy lips may preserve knowledge.
Easy-to-Read Version
Remember to live wisely, and what you learn will keep your lips from saying the wrong thing.
George Lamsa Translation
That you may heed counsel and that your lips may keep knowledge.
Good News Translation
Then you will know how to behave properly, and your words will show that you have knowledge.
Lexham English Bible
in order to keep prudence, and knowledge will guard your lips.
Literal Translation
so that you may keep judgment, and your lips may keep knowledge.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
yt thou mayest regarde good councell, and that thy lippes maye kepe nurtoure.
American Standard Version
That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Bible in Basic English
So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
King James Version (1611)
That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keepe knowledge.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
That thou mayest regarde good counsell, and that thy lippes may kepe knowledge.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that thou mayest keep good understanding, and the discretion of my lips gives thee a charge.
English Revised Version
That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and thi lippis kepe teching. Yyue thou not tent to the falsnesse of a womman;
Update Bible Version
That you may preserve discretion, And that your lips may keep knowledge.
Webster's Bible Translation
That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.
New King James Version
That you may preserve discretion, And your lips may keep knowledge.
New Living Translation
Then you will show discernment, and your lips will express what you've learned.
New Life Bible
So you may know what is good thinking, and your lips may keep much learning.
New Revised Standard
so that you may hold on to prudence, and your lips may guard knowledge.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That thou mayest preserve discretion, - and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.
Douay-Rheims Bible
That thou mayst keep thoughts, and thy lips may preserve instruction. Mind not the deceit of a woman.
Revised Standard Version
that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
Young's Literal Translation
To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
That you may observe discretion And your lips may reserve knowledge.

Contextual Overview

1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; 2so that you may maintain discretionand your lips safeguard knowledge.3Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honeyand her words are smoother than oil, 4in the end she’s as bitter as wormwoodand as sharp as a double-edged sword. 5Her feet go down to death;her steps head straight for Sheol. 6She doesn’t consider the path of life;she doesn’t know that her ways are unstable. 7So now, sons, listen to me,and don’t turn away from the words from my mouth. 8Keep your way far from her.Don’t go near the door of her house. 9Otherwise, you will give up your vitality to othersand your years to someone cruel; 10strangers will drain your resources,and your hard-earned pay will end up in a foreigner’s house.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy lips: Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 15:2, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs 16:23, Proverbs 20:15, Psalms 45:2, Psalms 71:15, Psalms 119:13, Song of Solomon 4:11, Malachi 2:6, Malachi 2:7

Reciprocal: Job 33:33 - hearken Proverbs 1:8 - hear Proverbs 22:17 - Bow Proverbs 23:12 - General 1 Thessalonians 2:11 - as

Cross-References

Genesis 1:27
So God created manin his own image;he created him in the image of God;he created them male and female.
Genesis 2:15
The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it.
Genesis 2:23
And the man said:
Malachi 2:15
Didn’t God make them one and give them a portion of spirit? What is the one seeking? Godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, so that no one acts treacherously against the wife of his youth.
Matthew 19:4
“Haven’t you read,”
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning
Acts 17:26
From one man he has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

That thou mayest regard discretion,.... Observe it; retain it in thine heart, as Aben Ezra adds, and use it; think, speak, and act discreetly, and so avoid the bad woman afterwards described: the Vulgate Latin version is, "that thou mayest keep the thoughts"; and so Gersom interprets the word; "good thoughts", according to the Septuagint version; the thoughts of the heart are to be observed. A man of spiritual wisdom will take notice of them; evil thoughts, which lead to uncleanness, are to be repressed and kept in; good ones to be cherished and improved; wise and sagacious ones (such the word here used signifies) are to be attended to, as being of great advantage in the various affairs and business of life; and spiritual and evangelical wisdom helps to such thoughts, and directs to the observance and exercise of them;

and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge; may be able to speak of things worthy to be known, and communicate the knowledge of them to others; by which means useful knowledge will be kept and preserved, and be continued in successive ages; see Malachi 2:7; even the knowledge of God and of Christ, and of the Gospel and its doctrines; and which will be a means of preserving men, as from false doctrine, error, and heresy, so from profaneness and immorality; and particularly from the adulterous woman, next described.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And that thy lips may keep - literally, “and thy lips shall keep.”


 
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