Loving Discipline and Knowledge
Proverbs 12:19
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment.
- KJV
- The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- WEB
- Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.
- ASV
- The lip of truth shall be established for ever; But a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- LSV
- The lip of truth is established forever, || And a tongue of falsehood for a moment.
- YLT
- The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment — a tongue of falsehood.
- DBY
- The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- DRC
- The lip of truth shall be steadfast for ever: but he that is a hasty witness, frameth a lying tongue.
- GNV
- The lip of trueth shall be stable for euer: but a lying tongue varieth incontinently.
- JPS
- The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- LXXE
- True lips establish testimony; but a hasty witness has an unjust tongue.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- שְֽׂפַת־אֱ֭מֶת תִּכּ֣וֹן לָעַ֑ד וְעַד־אַ֝רְגִּ֗יעָה לְשׁ֣וֹן שָֽׁקֶר׃
- LXX-Br
- Χείλη ἀληθινὰ κατορθοῖ μαρτυρίαν, μάρτυς δὲ ταχὺς γλῶσσαν ἔχει ἄδικον.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Proverbs 19:9A false witness will not go unpunished, and one who pours out lies will perish.
- Psalms 52:4–5You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue. Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
- Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
- Zechariah 1:4–6Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.…
- Acts 5:3–10Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land? Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was…
- Matthew 24:35Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).