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Proverbs 4:22

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For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

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Proverbs 12:18Rank 1 from verse 22
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¹⁸There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
Jeremiah 33:6Rank 2 from verse 22
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⁶Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
Proverbs 4:10Rank 3 from verse 22
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¹⁰Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Proverbs 3:8Rank 4 from verse 22
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⁸It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Proverbs 4:4Rank 5 from verse 22
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⁴He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.

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Proverbs 4:22

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for

1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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life

The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.

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find

To discover, meet with, obtain, perceive, or learn by search or experience.

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health

Sense 1: Soundness or well-being of body. Sense 2: Healing, cure, or restoration to soundness. Sense 3: Saving help or deliverance.

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flesh

Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.

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^4:20¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

^4:21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

^4:22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

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