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Selected Verse: Proverbs 16:23 - King James

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Pr 16:23 King James The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
The heart is the source of wisdom flowing from the mouth.
 
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13 With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.