◄ Proverbs 4:22 {23} ►
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Good News Translation
They will give life and health to anyone who understands them.

New Revised Standard Version
For they are life to those who find them, and healing to all their flesh.

Contemporary English Version
Knowing these teachings will mean true life and good health for you.

New American Bible
For they are life to those who find them, bringing health to one’s whole being.

Douay-Rheims Bible
With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.

life

Proverbs 4:4,10 Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. . . .

health

Proverbs 3:8 Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of all thy fruits;

Proverbs 12:18 There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Jeremiah 33:6 Behold I will close their wounds and give them health, and I will cure them: and I will reveal to them the prayer of peace and truth.

Context
A Father's Instruction
…21For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh. 22With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.23Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.…
Cross References
Proverbs 3:8
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of all thy fruits;

Proverbs 3:22
Then shalt thou walk confidently in thy way, and thy foot shall not stumble:

Proverbs 8:35
But he that shall sin against me shall hurt his own soul. All that hate me love death.

Proverbs 12:18
There is that promiseth, and is pricked as it were with a sword of conscience: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 16:24
Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Proverbs 4:21
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