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Proverbs 8:7

ProverbsPro 8
For my mouth tells the truth,and wickedness is detestable to my lips.
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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

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.
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.
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Contextual Overview

1Doesn’t wisdom call out? 2At the heights overlooking the road,at the crossroads, she takes her stand. 3Beside the gates leading into the city,at the main entrance, she cries out: 4“People, I call out to you;my cry is to the children of Adam. 5Learn to be shrewd, you who are inexperienced;develop common sense, you who are foolish. 6Listen, for I speak of noble things,and what my lips say is right. 7For my mouth tells the truth,and wickedness is detestable to my lips.8All the words from my mouth are righteous;none of them are deceptive or perverse. 9All of them are clear to the perceptive,and right to those who discover knowledge. 10Accept my instruction instead of silver,and knowledge rather than pure 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 kind of raven,
1 Kings 17:4
You are to drink from the wadi. I have commanded the ravens to provide for you there.”
1 Kings 17:6
The ravens kept bringing him bread and meat in the morning and in the evening, and he would drink from the wadi.
Job 38:41
Who provides the raven’s foodwhen its young cry out to Godand wander about for lack of food?
Psalms 147:9
He provides the animals with their food,and the young ravens, what they cry for.
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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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