Proverbs 23:23
“Buy the trueth, and sell it not; also wisedome and instruction and vnderstanding.”
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Proverbs 23:23 Context
21For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to pouerty; and drousinesse shall cloath a man with ragges. 22Hearken vnto thy father that begate thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old. 23Buy the trueth, and sell it not; also wisedome and instruction and vnderstanding. 24The father of the righteous shall greatly reioyce: and he that begetteth a wise child, shall haue ioy of him. 25Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall reioyce.
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Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
- King James Version
Buy truth, and do not sell {it,} {Get} wisdom and instruction and understanding.
- New American Standard Version (1995)