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Selected Verse: Proverbs 16:23 - Strong Concordance

Verse         Translation Text
Pr 16:23 Strong Concordance The heart [03820] of the wise [02450] teacheth [07919] his mouth [06310], and addeth [03254] learning [03948] to his lips [08193].
  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 [08193] have I declared [05608] all the judgments [04941] of thy mouth [06310].
4 Their sorrows [06094] shall be multiplied [07235] that hasten [04116] after another [0312] god: their drink offerings [05262] of blood [01818] will I not offer [05258], nor [01077] take up [05375] their names [08034] into my lips [08193].
18 For it is a pleasant thing [05273] if thou keep [08104] them within [0990] thee; they shall withal [03162] be fitted [03559] in thy lips [08193].
6 And when the woman [0802] saw [07200] that the tree [06086] was good [02896] for food [03978], and that it [01931] was pleasant [08378] to the eyes [05869], and a tree [06086] to be desired [02530] to make one wise [07919], she took [03947] of the fruit thereof [06529], and did eat [0398], and gave [05414] also [01571] unto her husband [0376] with her; and he did eat [0398].