Proverbs 23:23

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Proverbs 23:23

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Berean Standard Bible

Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

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KJV

King James Version

Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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WEB

World English Bible

Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

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ASV

American Standard Version

Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

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BLB

Berean Literal Bible

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Proverbs 23

²¹ For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe them in rags.

²² Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

²³ Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

²⁴ The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.

²⁵ May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!

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