KJV King James Version
Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
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Proverbs 30:5
Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
WEB World English Bible
“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.
ASV American Standard Version
Every word of God is tried: He is a shield unto them that take refuge in him.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Every saying of God is tried, A shield He is to those trusting in Him.
Surrounding context — Proverbs 30
2 Surely I [am] more brutish than [any] man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
4 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound the waters in a garment? who hath established all the ends of the earth? what [is] his name, and what [is] his son’s name, if thou canst tell?
5 Every word of God [is] pure: he [is] a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
6 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
7 Two [things] have I required of thee; deny me [them] not before I die:
8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
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Psalm 18:30[As for] God, his way [is] perfect: the word of the LORD is tried: he [is] a buckler to all those that trust in him.Psalm 12:6The words of the LORD [are] pure words: [as] silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.James 3:17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.Psalm 3:3But thou, O LORD, [art] a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.Psalm 84:11For the LORD God [is] a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good [thing] will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.Psalm 91:2I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.Psalm 119:140Thy word [is] very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.Genesis 15:1After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I [am] thy shield, [and] thy exceeding great reward.Romans 7:12Wherefore the law [is] holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.Psalm 144:2My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.Psalm 19:8The statutes of the LORD [are] right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the LORD [is] pure, enlightening the eyes.Psalm 115:9-11O Israel, trust thou in the LORD: he [is] their help and their shield.
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