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Douay-Rheims Bible

Proverbs 22:18

Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Wisdom;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Heart;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Belly;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Israel, History of;   Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom and Wise Men;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prov'erbs, Book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Belly;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Proverbs, Book of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Belly;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For it is pleasing if you keep them within youand if they are constantly on your lips.
Hebrew Names Version
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.
King James Version
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
English Standard Version
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
New American Standard Bible
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, So that they may be ready on your lips.
New Century Version
It will be good to keep these things in mind so that you are ready to repeat them.
Amplified Bible
For it will be pleasant if you keep them in mind [incorporating them as guiding principles]; Let them be ready on your lips [to guide and strengthen yourself and others].
World English Bible
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, If all of them are ready on your lips.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.
Legacy Standard Bible
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you,That they may be established on your lips.
Berean Standard Bible
for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.
Contemporary English Version
You will be glad that you know these sayings and can recite them.
Complete Jewish Bible
for it is pleasant to keep them deep within you; have all of them ready on your lips.
Darby Translation
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
Easy-to-Read Version
It will be good for you to remember these words and have them ready when they are needed.
George Lamsa Translation
For both of them are pleasant, keep them within you; let them together be made ready on your lips.
Good News Translation
and you will be glad if you remember them and can quote them.
Lexham English Bible
For it is pleasant if you guard them within you; together they will be ready upon your lips.
Literal Translation
for they are pleasant when you keep them within you; they shall all be fixed together on your lips,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for it is a pleasaunt thinge yf thou kepe it in thine herte, and practise it in thy mouth:
American Standard Version
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.
Bible in Basic English
For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; let them be established altogether upon thy lips.
King James Version (1611)
For it is a pleasant thing, if thou keepe them within thee; they shall withall be fitted in thy lippes.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
that thou mayest know that they are good: and if thou lay them to heart, they shall also gladden thee on thy lips.
English Revised Version
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, if they be established together upon thy lips.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
That schal be fair to thee, whanne thou hast kept it in thin herte, and it schal flowe ayen in thi lippis.
Update Bible Version
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them inside you, If they are established together on your lips.
Webster's Bible Translation
For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
New English Translation
For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.
New King James Version
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; Let them all be fixed upon your lips,
New Living Translation
For it is good to keep these sayings in your heart and always ready on your lips.
New Life Bible
For it will be pleasing if you keep them in your heart, so they may be ready on your lips.
New Revised Standard
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For sweet shall they be, when thou shalt keep them in thine inmost mind, they shall fit well together, upon thy lips.
Revised Standard Version
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
Young's Literal Translation
For they are pleasant when thou dost keep them in thy heart, They are prepared together for thy lips.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, That they may be ready on your lips.

Contextual Overview

17 Incline thy ear, and hear the words of the wise: and apply thy heart to my doctrine: 18 Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips: 19 That thy trust may be in the Lord, wherefore I have also shewn it to thee this day. 20 Behold I have described it to thee three manner of ways, in thoughts and knowledge: 21 That I might shew thee the certainty, and the words of truth, to answer out of these to them that sent thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it is: Proverbs 2:10, Proverbs 3:17, Proverbs 24:13, Proverbs 24:14, Psalms 19:10, Psalms 119:103, Psalms 119:111, Psalms 119:162, Jeremiah 15:16

within thee: Heb. within thy belly, Job 32:18, Job 32:19, John 7:38

fitted: Proverbs 8:6, Proverbs 10:13, Proverbs 10:21, Proverbs 15:7, Proverbs 16:21, Proverbs 25:11, Psalms 119:13, Psalms 119:171, Malachi 2:7, Hebrews 13:15

Reciprocal: Proverbs 16:23 - heart Proverbs 18:20 - General Proverbs 19:8 - he that keepeth Ecclesiastes 10:12 - words Matthew 13:52 - which Luke 6:45 - good man Acts 18:26 - expounded Colossians 4:6 - your

Cross-References

Genesis 18:18
Seeing he shall become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth shall be blessed?
Genesis 22:1
After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.
Genesis 22:3
So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass, and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.
Genesis 22:4
And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.
Genesis 22:5
And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass; I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.
Genesis 22:8
And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together.
Genesis 22:9
And they came to the place which God had shewn him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it; and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.
Genesis 22:10
And he put forth his hand, and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.
1 Samuel 2:30
Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.
Psalms 72:17
(71-17) Let his name be blessed for evermore: his name continueth before the sun. And in him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed: all nations shall magnify him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee,.... Or, "in thy belly" a. That is, in thine heart, in the inmost recesses of it; where the words or doctrines of the wise should be received in the love of them, and carefully laid up and retained; which will upon reflection yield much pleasure, like Ezekiel's roll, which was in his belly as honey for sweetness; and which also is very profitable as an antidote against sin, Psalms 119:11;

they shall withal be fitted in thy lips; become them, and be suitable and graceful to them: or, "shall be ordered [and disposed] in" or "by thy lips" b; being received into the heart, and digested there, they shall easily and freely go off the tongue, which shall be as the pen of a ready writer; they shall be delivered in a regular manner, with great liberty and facility; by a good digestion of Gospel truths, and a comfortable experience of them, persons become apt to teach others.

a בבטנך "in ventre tuo", V. L. Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis, Schultens. b כונו "disponantur", Vatablus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What is “pleasant” in the sight of God and man is the union of two things, belief passing into profession, profession resting on belief.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 22:18. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee

II. The pleasure and profit which may be derived from an attentive hearing.

1. They should be laid up in the heart - stored, treasured up within thee.

2. This will yield high satisfaction and happiness to the soul: "For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee."

3. The man who thus attends to the teachings of wisdom shall gain an experimental knowledge of them, so as to be able to speak of them suitably, pertinently and persuasively. "They shall withal be fitted in thy lips."


 
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