Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
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Yes, my heart will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
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Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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Yea, my reins will rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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Passages linked to Proverbs 23:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 8:6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
- Ephesians 5:4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.
- Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
- Colossians 4:4 that I may reveal it as I ought to speak.
- James 3:2 For we all stumble in many things. Anyone who doesn’t stumble in word is a perfect person, able to bridle the whole body also.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I shall rejoice not only in show and profession,…
I shall rejoice not only in show and profession, but inwardly, and with all my soul.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Yea, my reins shall rejoice,.... Which is only another…
Yea, my reins shall rejoice,.... Which is only another phrase expressive of the same thing, and confirming the greatness of joy on the above occasion; not only his heart rejoiced, which was affectionately concerned for his son, near which he lay, the desires of which were frequently drawn out for his good, but his reins also; the seat of the afflictions rejoiced at it; showing how vehement, sincere, and hearty the joy was;
when thy lips speak right things; as they will, when the heart is wise; things agreeably to right reason, to the Scriptures of truth, the oracles of God; to the law and to the testimony; to the Gospel of Christ, and the doctrines of it; and such things as are savoury, pleasant, and profitable, and minister grace to the hearers. The Targum is,
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"when my lips speak right things;''
see Pro 8:6.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain My reins - I shall rejoice with all my…
My reins - I shall rejoice with all my soul.
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Reins. Inmost affections.
Reins. Inmost affections.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain my reins--(Compare Psa 7:9).
my reins--(Compare Psa 7:9).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (16) My reins shall rejoice.—These being represented in Hebrew…
(16) My reins shall rejoice.—These being represented in Hebrew poetry as the seat of the deepest affections, answering to “heart” in Pro_23:15. (Comp. Psa_7:9; Jer_12:2; Rev_2:23.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain My reins shall rejoice. The "reins" (kelayoth), kidneys, are…
My reins shall rejoice. The "reins" (kelayoth), kidneys, are regarded as the seat of feeling and sensation. (Job_19:27) or of the inner nature generally. (Psa_16:7 Rev_2:22) I shall rejoice in my very soul when thy lips speak right things; i.e. when thy heart is so replete with wisdom, thy mind so well instructed as to utter naught but what is true and sensible. (Pro_8:6) The composition of these two verses is noteworthy, 15 a being parallel to 16 b, and. 15 b to 16 a. Septuagint, "And thy lips shall linger in words (endiatriqei logoiv ) with my lips, if they be right," which seems to mean, "If thy lips utter what is right, they will gather wisdom from my words and impart it to others."
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Paul E. Kretzmann 1924 · Public Domain v. 16. Yea, my reins, his whole inner being,…
v. 16. Yea, my reins, his whole inner being, shall rejoice when thy lips speak right things, in an outward manifestation of the wisdom of the heart.
Paul E. Kretzmann, Popular Commentary of the Bible (1921–1924) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.