Proverbs 22:18
Modern Translations
New International Version
for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips.

New Living Translation
For it is good to keep these sayings in your heart and always ready on your lips.

English Standard Version
for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Berean Study Bible
for it is pleasing when you keep them within you and they are constantly 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.

NASB 1995
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, That they may be ready on your lips.

NASB 1977
For it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, That they may be ready on your lips.

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].

Christian Standard Bible
For it is pleasing if you keep them within you and if they are constantly on your lips.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For it is pleasing if you keep them within you and if they are constantly on your lips.

Contemporary English Version
You will be glad that you know these sayings and can recite them.

Good News Translation
and you will be glad if you remember them and can quote them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It is pleasant if you keep them in mind [so that] they will be on the tip of your tongue,

International Standard Version
for it is pleasant when you treasure them within you and have them ready on your lips.

NET Bible
For it is pleasing if you keep these sayings within you, and they are ready on your lips.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy 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,

King James 2000 Bible
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall all be fitted on your lips.

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

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

American King James Version
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; they shall with be fitted in your lips.

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

A Faithful Version
For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you; if all of them are ready on your lips,

Darby Bible Translation
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keepest them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For it shalbe pleasant, if thou keepe them in thy bellie, and if they be directed together in thy lippes.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For it is a pleasaunt thing if thou kepe them in thyne heart, and order them in thy lippes:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
for it is a pleasaunt thinge yf thou kepe it in thine herte, and practise it in thy mouth:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
For they are pleasant when you keep them in your heart, "" They are prepared together for 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.

Smith's Literal Translation
For pleasant things if thou shalt watch them in thy belly; they shall be prepared together for thy lips.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips:

Catholic Public Domain Version
It shall be beautiful to you, if you preserve it in your inner self, and it shall overflow from your lips,

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because they are sweet, keep them in your gut, and they will form together upon your lips.

Lamsa Bible
For both of them are pleasant, keep them within you; let them together be made ready on your lips.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; Let them be established altogether upon thy lips.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
that thou mayest know that they are good: and if thou lay them to heart, they shall also gladden thee on thy lips.
















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