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Myles Coverdale Bible

Proverbs 8:7

For my throte shal be talkynge of ye trueth, & my lippes abhorre vngodlynesse.

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;  

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.
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

1 Doth not wysdome crie? doth not vnderstondinge put forth hir voyce? 2 Stondeth she not in the hye places in the stretes & wayes? 3 doth she not crie before the whole cite, & in the gates where men go out & in? 4 It is you, o ye men (sayeth she) whom I call. Unto you (o ye childre of me) lift I vp my voyce. 5 Take hede vnto knowlege o ye ignoraut, be wyse in herte o ye fooles. 6 Geue eare, for I wil speake of greate matters, & open my lippes to tell thinges that be right. 7 For my throte shal be talkynge of ye trueth, & my lippes abhorre vngodlynesse. 8 All the wordes of my mouth are rightuous, there is no frowardnesse ner falsede therin. 9 They are all playne to soch as wil vnderstode, & right to the that fynde knowlege. 10 Receaue my doctryne therfore and not syluer, & knowlege more then fyne golde.

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
and all Rauens wt their kynde:
1 Kings 17:4
and thou shalt drynke of the ryuer: and I haue commaunded the rauens, that they shal fede the there.
1 Kings 17:6
And the raues broughte him bred and flesh in the mornynge and in the euenynge, and he dranke of the ryuer.
Job 38:41
who prouydeth meate for the rauen, whe his yonge ones crie vnto God, ad fle aboute for want of meate?
Psalms 147:9
Which geueth foder vnto ye catell, & fedeth ye yonge rauens yt call vpo him.

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.


 
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