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Geneva Bible

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Health Promised;   Health-Disease;   Life;   Life-Death;   Promises, Divine;   Righteousness;   Sickness;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Flesh;   Life;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Health;   Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Health;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Amulet;   Shemoneh 'Esreh;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for February 4;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For they are life to those who find them,and health to one’s whole body.
Hebrew Names Version
For they are life to those who find them, And health to their whole body.
King James Version
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
English Standard Version
For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
New Century Version
They are the key to life for those who find them; they bring health to the whole body.
New English Translation
for they are life to those who find them and healing to one's entire body.
Amplified Bible
For they are life to those who find them, And healing and health to all their flesh.
New American Standard Bible
For they are life to those who find them, And healing to all their body.
World English Bible
For they are life to those who find them, And health to their whole body.
Legacy Standard Bible
For they are life to those who find themAnd healing to all his flesh.
Berean Standard Bible
For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
Contemporary English Version
Knowing these teachings will mean true life and good health for you.
Complete Jewish Bible
for they are life to those who find them and health to their whole being.
Darby Translation
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Easy-to-Read Version
These words are the secret of life and health to all who discover them.
George Lamsa Translation
For they are life to him who finds them, and health to all his flesh.
Good News Translation
They will give life and health to anyone who understands them.
Lexham English Bible
For they are life to those who find them and healing to the entire body.
Literal Translation
for they are life to those who find them, and healing to all his flesh.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For they are life vnto all those that finde the, and health vnto all their bodies.
American Standard Version
For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.
Bible in Basic English
For they are life to him who gets them, and strength to all his flesh.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
King James Version (1611)
For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For they are life vnto those that finde them, and health vnto all their bodyes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
English Revised Version
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For tho ben lijf to men fyndynge thoo, and heelthe `of al fleisch.
Update Bible Version
For they are life to those that find them, And health to all their flesh.
Webster's Bible Translation
For they [are] life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
New King James Version
For they are life to those who find them, And health to all their flesh.
New Living Translation
for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.
New Life Bible
For they are life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.
New Revised Standard
For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, life, they are, to them who find them, - and, to every part of one's flesh, they bring healing.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
Revised Standard Version
For they are life to him who finds them, and healing to all his flesh.
Young's Literal Translation
For life they [are] to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For they are life to those who find them And health to all their body.

Contextual Overview

20 My sonne, hearken vnto my wordes, incline thine eare vnto my sayings. 21 Let them not depart from thine eyes, but keepe them in the middes of thine heart. 22 For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh. 23 Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee. 25 Let thine eyes beholde the right, and let thine eyeliddes direct thy way before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feete, and let all thy waies be ordred aright. 27 Turne not to the right hande, nor to the left, but remooue thy foote from euill.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

life: Proverbs 4:4, Proverbs 4:10

health: Heb. medicine, Proverbs 3:8, *marg. Proverbs 12:18, Jeremiah 33:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:47 - General Proverbs 3:22 - life Proverbs 4:6 - love Proverbs 16:24 - health 1 Peter 3:10 - love

Cross-References

Exodus 25:3
And this is the offring which ye shal take of them, golde, and siluer, and brasse,
Numbers 31:22
As for gold, and siluer, brasse, yron, tynne, and lead:
Deuteronomy 8:9
A land wherein thou shalt eate bread without scarcitie, neither shalt thou lacke any thing therein: a land whose stones are yron, and out of whose mountaines thou shalt digge brasse.
Deuteronomy 33:25
Thy shooes shalbe yron and brasse, and thy strength shal continue as long as thou liuest.
2 Chronicles 2:7
Sende me nowe therefore a cunning man that can worke in golde, in siluer, & in brasse, and in yron, & in purple, and crimosin & blue silke, & that can graue in grauen worke with the cunning men that are with me in Iudah & in Ierusalem, whom Dauid my father hath prepared.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For they [are] life unto those that find them,.... The words or doctrines of Christ, whose type Solomon was, are to be found in the field of the Scriptures, by diligent searching for them; and being found, they are the means of spiritual life, and of maintaining it, and of showing the way, and bringing unto eternal life; see John 6:63;

and health to all their flesh; the whole man, soul and body, as they are the means of preserving the body from many diseases, which intemperance, lust, and luxury, lead unto, and are curbed by these; so of healing the various diseases of the soul; and, however, of directing to a panacea for them, to the blood of Christ, which is the true balm of Gilead, and he the physician of souls. Moreover, the doctrines of the Gospel are the wholesome words of our Lord Jesus; they are sound, salutary, and healthful, and serve to keep the soul in good plight, and the body too. The Septuagint render it, "to all flesh": that is, to all men; but this is not true in fact; for to some the Gospel of Christ, through contempt and rejection of it, is the savour of death unto death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Health - See the Proverbs 3:8 note.


 
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