Proverbs 3:17 {18}
Good News Translation
Wisdom can make your life pleasant and lead you safely through it.

New Revised Standard Version
Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

Contemporary English Version
Wisdom makes life pleasant and leads us safely along.

New American Bible
Her ways are pleasant ways, and all her paths are peace;

Douay-Rheims Bible
She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed.

ways of

Proverbs 2:10 Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,

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

Psalm 19:10,11 More to be desired than gold and many precious stones: and sweeter than honey and the honeycomb. . . .

Psalm 63:3-5 For thy mercy is better than lives: thee my lips will praise. . . .

Psalm 112:1 Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord: he shall delight exceedingly in his commandments.

Psalm 119:14,47,103,174 I have been delighted in the way of thy testimonies, as in all riches. . . .

Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. . . .

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Psalm 25:10 All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth, to them that seek after his covenant and his testimonies.

Psalm 37:11 But the meek shall inherit the land, and shall delight in abundance of peace.

Psalm 119:165 Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block.

Isaiah 26:3 The old error is passed away: thou wilt keep peace: peace, because we have hoped in thee.

Isaiah 57:19 I created the fruit of the lips, peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, said the Lord, and I healed him.

Luke 1:79 To enlighten them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death: to direct our feet into the way of peace.

Romans 5:1 Being justified therefore by faith, let us have peace with God, through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Philippians 4:8,9 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things. . . .

Context
The Blessings of Wisdom
16Her ways are beautiful ways, and all her paths are peaceable. 17She is a tree of life to them that lay hold on her: and he that shall retain her is blessed.18The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth, hath established the heavens by prudence.…
Cross References
Matthew 11:29
Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.

Psalm 119:165
Much peace have they that love thy law, and to them there is no stumbling block.

Proverbs 16:7
When the ways of man shall please the Lord, he will convert even his enemies to peace.

Proverbs 3:16
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