Bible verse
An honest answer given is like a kiss on the lips.
Proverbs 24:26 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 24.
22 For they will bring sudden destruction. Who knows what ruin they can bring?
23 These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
24 Whoever tells the guilty, “You are innocent”—peoples will curse him, and nations will denounce him;
25 but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and rich blessing will come upon them.
26 An honest answer given is like a kiss on the lips.
27 Complete your outdoor work and prepare your field; after that, you may build your house.
28 Do not testify against your neighbor without cause, and do not deceive with your lips.
29 Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
30 I went past the field of a slacker and by the vineyard of a man lacking judgment.
KJV
[Every man] shall kiss [his] lips that giveth a right answer.
ASV
He kisseth the lips Who giveth a right answer.
ERV
He kisseth the lips that giveth a right answer.
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