Proverbs 22:18

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

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WEBBE

For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

BSB

for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly on your lips.

KJV

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

ASV

For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee, If they be established together upon thy lips.

BBE

For it is a delight to keep them in your heart, to have them ready on your lips.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 17–21

To these words, to this knowledge, the ear must be bowed down, and the heart applied by faith and love. To live a life of delight in God and dependence on him, is the foundation of all practical religion. The way to know the certainty of the word of truth, is to make conscience of our duty.

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