◄ Proverbs 18:20 ►
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Good News Translation
You will have to live with the consequences of everything you say.

New Revised Standard Version
From the fruit of the mouth one’s stomach is satisfied; the yield of the lips brings satisfaction.

Contemporary English Version
Make your words good--you will be glad you did.

New American Bible
With the fruit of one’s mouth one’s belly is filled, with the produce of one’s lips one is sated.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the fruit of a man's mouth shall his belly be satisfied: and the offspring of his lips shall fill him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Of the fruit of a man's mouth shall his belly be satisfied: and the offspring of his lips shall fill him.

Proverbs 12:13,14 For the sins of the lips ruin draweth nigh to the evil man: but the just shall escape out of distress. . . .

Proverbs 13:2 Of the fruit of his own month shall a man be filled with good things: but the soul of transgressors is wicked.

Proverbs 22:18,21 Which shall be beautiful for thee, if thou keep it in thy bowels, and it shall flow in thy lips: . . .

Proverbs 25:11,12 To speak a word in due time, is like apples of gold on beds of silver. . . .

Context
The Selfishness of the Unfriendly
…19A brother that is helped by his brother, is like a strong city: and judgments are like the bars of cities. 20Of the fruit of a man's mouth shall his belly be satisfied: and the offspring of his lips shall fill him.21Death and life are in the power of the tongue: they that love it, shall eat the fruits thereof.…
Cross References
Proverbs 12:14
By the fruit of his own mouth shall a man be filled with good things, and according to the works of his hands it shall be repaid him.

Proverbs 14:14
A fool shall be filled with his own ways, and the good man shall be above him.

Proverbs 18:19
A brother that is helped by his brother, is like a strong city: and judgments are like the bars of cities.

Proverbs 18:19
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