THEOSISProverbs 16:21Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and he that is sweet in words, shall attain to greater things.
לַחֲכַם־לֵ֭ב יִקָּרֵ֣א נָב֑וֹן וּמֶ֥תֶק שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם יֹסִ֥יף לֶֽקַח׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 16:23The heart of the wise shall instruct his mouth: and shall add grace to his lips.
- Prov 16:24Well ordered words are as a honeycomb: sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
- Prov 15:7The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike.
- Isa 50:4The Lord hath given me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakeneth in the morning, in the morning he wakeneth my ear, that I may hear him as a master.
- Prov 27:9Ointment and perfumes rejoice the heart: and the good counsels of a friend are sweet to the soul.
- Jas 3:17But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.
- Luke 4:22And all gave testimony to him. And they wondered at the words of grace that proceeded from his mouth. And they said: Is not this the son of Joseph?
- John 7:46The ministers answered: Never did man speak like this man.