💡WEB · Proverbs 23:23
What does Proverbs 23:23 mean?
"Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding."
— Proverbs 23:23 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:
for the drunkard and the glutton shall become poor; and drowsiness clothes them in rags.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.
Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.
Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!
My son, give me your heart; and let your eyes keep in my ways.
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