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Proverbs 4:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life. "
Proverbs 4:23
Verse in Context
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21 Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart.
22 For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
23 Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.
24 Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
25 Let your eyes look straight ahead. Fix your gaze directly before you.
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Proverbs 4:1
"Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;"
Proverbs 4:2
"for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law."
Proverbs 4:3
"For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother."
Proverbs 4:4
"He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live."
Proverbs 4:5
"Get wisdom. Get understanding. Don’t forget, and don’t deviate from the words of my mouth."
Proverbs 4:6
"Don’t forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you."
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