Proverbs 22:18 Cross References - LEB

¹⁸ For it is pleasant if you guard them _⌊within you_⌋;* together they will be ready upon your lips.

¹⁸ for I am full of words;* _⌊the spirit within me_⌋* urges me. ¹⁹ "Look, my internal organs are like unopened wine, like new wineskins it* is ready to burst open.

¹⁰ more desirable than gold, even much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, even honey in the comb.

¹³ With my lips I have told of all the ordinances of your mouth.

¹⁰³ How smooth* are your words* to my palate, more than honey in my mouth.

¹¹¹ I have taken as my own your testimonies forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

¹⁶² I am rejoicing over your word, like one who finds great spoil.

¹⁷¹ Let my lips pour out praise, because you teach me your statutes.

¹⁰ for wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul.*

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

⁶ Listen! For noble things I will speak, and upright things from the opening of my lips.

¹³ On the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who lacks _⌊sense_⌋.*

²¹ Lips of righteousness feed many, but fools _⌊die for lack of sense_⌋.*

⁷ The lips of the wise will spread knowledge, but the heart* of fools, not so.

²¹ The wise of heart* is called perceptive, but he who is pleasant of lips will increase persuasiveness.

¹³ My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the dripping of the honeycomb is sweet to your taste. ¹⁴ Thus know wisdom for the sake of your soul,* if you find it, then there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

¹¹ Apples of gold in a setting of silver is a matter spoken at* its proper time.

¹⁶ Your words were found and I ate them, and your words became to me as jubilation, even as the joy of my heart, for your name is called on me, O Yahweh God of hosts.

⁷ For the lips of the priest should guard knowledge, and they should seek instruction* from his mouth, for he is the messenger of Yahweh of hosts.

³⁸ the one who believes in me.* Just as the scripture said, 'Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.'"*

¹⁵ Therefore through him let us offer up a sacrifice of praise _⌊continually_⌋* to God, that is, the fruit of lips that confess his name.