Proverbs 23:23
Modern Translations
New International Version
Buy the truth and do not sell it-- wisdom, instruction and insight as well.

New Living Translation
Get the truth and never sell it; also get wisdom, discipline, and good judgment.

English Standard Version
Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Berean Study Bible
Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

New American Standard Bible
Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

NASB 1995
Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

NASB 1977
Buy truth, and do not sell it, Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Amplified Bible
Buy truth, and do not sell it; Get wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Christian Standard Bible
Buy—and do not sell—truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Buy--and do not sell--truth, wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Contemporary English Version
Invest in truth and wisdom, discipline and good sense, and don't part with them.

Good News Translation
Truth, wisdom, learning, and good sense--these are worth paying for, but too valuable for you to sell.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Buy truth (and do not sell it), [that is,] buy wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

International Standard Version
Purchase truth, but don't sell it; store up wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

NET Bible
Acquire truth and do not sell it--wisdom, and discipline, and understanding.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

New King James Version
Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and understanding.

King James 2000 Bible
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

New Heart English Bible
Buy the truth, and do not sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

World English Bible
Buy the truth, and don't sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

American King James Version
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

American Standard Version
Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea , wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

A Faithful Version
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Darby Bible Translation
Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.

English Revised Version
Buy the truth, and sell it not; yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Webster's Bible Translation
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Purchase trueth, wysdome, nurture, and vnderstanding, and sell them not.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Labor for to get ye treuth: sell not awaye wysdome, nourtor & vnderstodinge
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Buy truth, and do not sell, "" Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

Young's Literal Translation
Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

Smith's Literal Translation
Buy the truth, and thou shalt not sell wisdom and instruction and understanding.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Purchase truth, and do not sell wisdom, or doctrine, or understanding.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Buy truth and do not sell wisdom, instruction or understanding.

Lamsa Bible
Buy the truth, and do not sell wisdom; also buy understanding and instruction.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Buy the truth, and sell it not; Also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
















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