THEOSISProverbs 20:15Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
There is gold and a multitude of jewels: but the lips of knowledge are a precious vessel.
יֵ֣שׁ זָ֭הָב וְרָב־פְּנִינִ֑ים וּכְלִ֥י יְ֝קָ֗ר שִׂפְתֵי־דָֽעַת׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 25:12As an earring of gold and a bright pearl, so is he that reproveth the wise, and the obedient ear.
- Prov 8:11For wisdom is better than all the most precious things: and whatsoever may be desired cannot be compared to it.
- 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.
- Prov 16:16Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver.
- Eph 4:29Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good, to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the hearers.
- Rom 10:14How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
- Rom 10:15And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good things?