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Proverbs 23

Pr. 23:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Letd not thine heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
envy
qana' (Hebrew #7065)
to be (causatively, make) zealous, i.e. (in a bad sense) jealous or envious
KJV usage: (be) envy(-ious), be (move to, provoke to) jealous(-y), X very, (be) zeal(-ous).
Pronounce: kaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
sinners
chatta' (Hebrew #2400)
a criminal, or one accounted guilty
KJV usage: offender, sinful, sinner.
Pronounce: khat-taw'
Origin: intensively from 2398
: but be thou in the fear
yir'ah (Hebrew #3374)
fear (also used as infinitive); morally, reverence
KJV usage: X dreadful, X exceedingly, fear(-fulness).
Pronounce: yir-aw'
Origin: feminine of 3373
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
all the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
long.

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Ministry on This Verse

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be thou.
Pr. 15:16• 16Mejor es lo poco con el temor de Jehová, Que el gran tesoro donde hay turbación. (Pr. 15:16)
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Pr. 28:14• 14Bienaventurado el hombre que siempre está temeroso: Mas el que endurece su corazón, caerá en mal. (Pr. 28:14)
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Sal. 111:10• 10El principio de la sabiduría es el temor de Jehová: Buen entendimiento tienen cuantos ponen aquéllos por obra: Su loor permanece para siempre. (Sal. 111:10)
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Sal. 112:1• 1Aleluya. Bienaventurado el hombre que teme á Jehová, Y en sus mandamientos se deleita en gran manera. (Sal. 112:1)
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Ec. 5:7• 7Donde los sueños son en multitud, también lo son las vanidades y muchas las palabras; mas tú teme á Dios. (Ec. 5:7)
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Ec. 12:13‑14• 13El fin de todo el discurso oído es este: Teme á Dios, y guarda sus mandamientos; porque esto es el todo del hombre.
14Porque Dios traerá toda obra á juicio, el cual se hará sobre toda cosa oculta, buena ó mala.
(Ec. 12:13‑14)
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Hch. 9:31• 31Las iglesias entonces tenían paz por toda Judea y Galilea y Samaria, y eran edificadas, andando en el temor del Señor; y con consuelo del Espíritu Santo eran multiplicadas. (Hch. 9:31)
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2 Co. 7:1• 1Así que, amados, pues tenemos tales promesas, limpiémonos de toda inmundicia de carne y de espíritu, perfeccionando la santificación en temor de Dios. (2 Co. 7:1)
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1 P. 1:17• 17Y si invocáis por Padre á aquel que sin acepción de personas juzga según la obra de cada uno, conversad en temor todo el tiempo de vuestra peregrinación: (1 P. 1:17)
 To envy those who seem to prosper in wickedness is not wise, for their day of retribution is coming. However righteousness may suffer in the present age, it will be proven at last that they had the better part who daily lived in the fear of the Lord. (Proverbs Twenty-Three by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fearc of Jehovah all the day;

JND Translation Notes

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Or "but [let it covet] the fear."