23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.


In Context

20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

22 Listen to your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.

23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begets a wise child shall have joy of him.

25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bore you shall rejoice.

Proverbs 23:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:23Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:23Buy the truth and do not sell it; get wisdom, discipline and understanding.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:23Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea , wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:23Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:23Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,