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


In Context

20 Don't be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

21 for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.

22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and don't despise your mother when she is old.

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

24 The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you 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 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.