23Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.


In Context

20 My son, attend to my words; incline your ear to my sayings.

21 Let them not depart from your eyes; keep them in the middle of your heart.

22 For they are life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

24 Put away from you a fraudulent mouth, and perverse lips put far from you.

25 Let your eyes look right on, and let your eyelids look straight before you.

Proverbs 4:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:23Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:23With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:23Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:23Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:23Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:23Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.