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Proverbs 19:20-22
Common English Bible
Proverbs 19:20-22
Common English Bible
20 Listen to advice and accept instruction,
so you might grow wise in the future.
21 Many plans are in a person’s mind,
but the Lord’s purpose will succeed.
22 People long for trustworthiness;
it is better to be poor than a liar.
Proverbs 19:20-22
New International Version
Proverbs 19:20-22
New International Version
21 Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.(C)
22 What a person desires is unfailing love[a];
better to be poor than a liar.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 19:22 Or Greed is a person’s shame
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