Bible verse
My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
Proverbs 23:16 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 23.
12 Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child; although you strike him with a rod, he will not die.
14 Strike him with a rod, and you will deliver his soul from Sheol.
15 My son, if your heart is wise, my own heart will indeed rejoice.
16 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
18 For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
KJV
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
ASV
Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
ERV
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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