The most popular Bible verses from Proverbs - Page 40

Found 915 Verses (from 391)

Proverbs 13:19

Bible Rank: 13,478

A longing fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but fools detest turning from evil. NIV

Satisfied desire is sweet to a person; therefore it is hateful and exceedingly offensive to [self-confident] fools to give up evil [upon which they have set their hearts]. AMP

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil. KJV

Proverbs 5:20

Bible Rank: 13,479

Why, my son, be intoxicated with another man's wife? Why embrace the bosom of a wayward woman? NIV

Why should you, my son, be infatuated with a loose woman, embrace the bosom of an outsider, and go astray? AMP

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? KJV

Proverbs 6:4

Bible Rank: 13,619

Allow no sleep to your eyes, no slumber to your eyelids. NIV

Give not [unnecessary] sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids AMP

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids. KJV

Proverbs 6:28

Bible Rank: 13,691

Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched? NIV

Can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned? AMP

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned? KJV

Proverbs 5:2

Bible Rank: 13,692

That you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. NIV

That you may exercise proper discrimination and discretion and your lips may guard and keep knowledge and the wise answer [to temptation]. AMP

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. KJV

Proverbs 7:15

Bible Rank: 13,785

So I came out to meet you; I looked for you and have found you! NIV

So I came forth to meet you [that you might share with me the feast from my offering]; diligently I sought your face, and I have found you. AMP

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. KJV

Proverbs 7:2

Bible Rank: 13,786

Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye. NIV

Keep my commandments and live, and keep my law and teaching as the apple (the pupil) of your eye. AMP

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. KJV

Proverbs 9:7

Bible Rank: 13,859

Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults; whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse. NIV

He who rebukes a scorner heaps upon himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man gets for himself bruises. AMP

He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot. KJV

Proverbs 8:31

Bible Rank: 13,933

Rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in humankind. NIV

Rejoicing in His inhabited earth and delighting in the sons of men. [Ps. 16:3.] AMP

Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. KJV

Proverbs 7:24

Bible Rank: 13,998

Now then, my sons, listen to me; pay attention to what I say. NIV

Listen to me now therefore, O you sons, and be attentive to the words of my mouth. AMP

Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. KJV