Proverbs 12:19
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
Proverbs 12:19 in other translations
| BSB | Truthful lips endure forever, but a lying tongue lasts only a moment. |
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| WEB | Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary. |
| ASV | The lip of truth shall be established for ever; But a lying tongue is but for a moment. |
| YLT | The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment--a tongue of falsehood. |
| DARBY | The lip of truth shall be established for ever; but a lying tongue is but for a moment. |
| BBE | True lips are certain for ever, but a false tongue is only for a minute. |
| Webster | The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment. |
What does Proverbs 12:19 mean?
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Proverbs 12:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 12:19
- Proverbs 19:9
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
- Psalms 52:4-5
Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue. God shall likewise destroy thee for ever, he shall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place, and root thee out of the land of the living. Selah.
- Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
- Zechariah 1:4-6
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the Lord. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.
- Acts 5:3-10
But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land? Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. And Ananias hearing these words fell down, and gave up the ghost: and great fear came on all them that heard these things. And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him. …
- Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
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Context
- Proverbs 12:18
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
- Proverbs 12:19
The lip of truth shall be established for ever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment.
- Proverbs 12:20
Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
Proverbs 12:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El labio de verdad permanecerá para siempre: mas la lengua de mentira por un momento. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La lèvre véridique est ferme pour toujours, mais la langue fausse n’est que pour un instant. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Lippe der Wahrheit besteht ewiglich, aber nur einen Augenblick die Zunge der Lüge. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Labium veritatis firmum erit in perpetuum; qui autem testis est repentinus, concinnat linguam mendacii. |