Bible verse
that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
Proverbs 5:2 · BSB
The verses around it, from Proverbs 5.
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,
2 that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
4 in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.
6 She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
KJV
That thou mayest regard discretion, and [that] thy lips may keep knowledge.
ASV
That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.
ERV
That thou mayest preserve discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
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