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Proverbs 6:23

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23For the commandment is pa ||lamp; and the law is plight;

And ppreproofs of instruction are the way of life:

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Proverbs 6:23: For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

Footnotes

  1. pPs 119:105. So Ps. 19:8.
  2. ||Or, candle. See 2 Sam. 21:17.
  3. pPs 119:105. So Ps. 19:8.
  4. ppSo ch. 10:17.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,

and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

For this command is a lamp,

this teaching is a light,

and correction and instruction

are the way to life,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For a command is a lamp, teaching is a light,

and corrective discipline is the way to life.

NLTNew Living Translation

For their command is a lamp

and their instruction a light;

their corrective discipline

is the way to life.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For like a lamp is a commandment, and instruction is light,

and the way of life is the reproof of discipline,