Commit your works to the Lord, And your plans will be established. | Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established. |
Trust in the Lord with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. | Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. |
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Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and a good reputation In the sight of God and man. | Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. |
One who conceals an offense seeks love, But one who repeats a matter separates close friends. | He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. |
Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life. | Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. |
Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he grows older he will not abandon it. | Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. |
One who pursues righteousness and loyalty Finds life, righteousness, and honor. | He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. |
A generous person will be prosperous, And one who gives others plenty of water will himself be given plenty. | The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself. |
For the Lord gives wisdom; From His mouth come knowledge and understanding. | For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. |
As in water a face reflects the face, So the heart of a person reflects the person. | As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. |