Proverbs 4:23
Modern Translations
New International Version
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

New Living Translation
Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.

English Standard Version
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Berean Study Bible
Guard your heart with all diligence, for from it flow springs of life.

New American Standard Bible
Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

NASB 1995
Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

NASB 1977
Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

Amplified Bible
Watch over your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.

Christian Standard Bible
Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.

Contemporary English Version
Carefully guard your thoughts because they are the source of true life.

Good News Translation
Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Guard your heart more than anything else, because the source of your life flows from it.

International Standard Version
Above everything else guard your heart, because from it flow the springs of life.

NET Bible
Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

New King James Version
Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life.

King James 2000 Bible
Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

New Heart English Bible
Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

World English Bible
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it is the wellspring of life.

American King James Version
Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

American Standard Version
Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.

A Faithful Version
Above all guard the door of your mind with diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

Darby Bible Translation
Keep thy heart more than anything that is guarded; for out of it are the issues of life.

English Revised Version
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Webster's Bible Translation
Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Keepe thine heart with all diligence: for thereout commeth life.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Kepe thyne heart with all diligence, for out of it issueth lyfe.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Kepe thine hert with all diligence, for there vpon hangeth life.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Above every charge keep your heart, "" For out of it [are] the outgoings of life.

Young's Literal Translation
Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.

Smith's Literal Translation
Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Keep your heart with all caution because from it is the outgoing of life.

Lamsa Bible
Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Above all that thou guardest keep thy heart; For out of it are the issues of life.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Keep thine heart with the utmost care; for out of these are the issues of life.
















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