Truth Cannot be Disposed of Without Injury
Proverbs 23:23
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.


Truth is not like a watch-seal, which a man can dispose of without any injury to his character. It is a vital element of character, and thus of happiness; and he who barters it for anything, will soon realise that he has not only sacrificed the greater for the less, but given up the chief thing in human nobility and joy.

(T. Carlyle.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

WEB: Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.




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