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


In Context

20 Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:

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

22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.

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

24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.

25 Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee 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 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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