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Proverbs 17:1

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    17:1 Lit. strife-sacrifices The term welfare-sacrifices, much used in the historical books, may with apparent correctness be translated peace-sacrifices

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/1972, p. 68

  • Publications Index

    w72 68

Proverbs 17:3

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 764

    Awake!,

    8/8/1990, p. 12

    The Watchtower,

    3/1/1963, pp. 135-136

  • Publications Index

    it-2 764; g90 8/8 12;

    w63 136; g61 7/22 27

Proverbs 17:4

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  • *

    17:4 (falsehood) Susp.

Indexes

  • Publications Index

    w47 134

Proverbs 17:5

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    5/15/1977, p. 295

  • Publications Index

    w77 295

Proverbs 17:6

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Awake!,

    12/8/1979, pp. 9-10

  • Publications Index

    g79 12/8 9-10

Proverbs 17:7

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    17:7 (grandiloquent) Unc.

Proverbs 17:8

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    17:8 Lit. favor-stone

Proverbs 17:9

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 990

    The Watchtower,

    4/15/1979, p. 26

    7/15/1974, p. 441

    7/1/1970, p. 390

    4/15/1970, p. 253

    8/15/1965, pp. 483-484

    7/1/1965, pp. 387-388

    5/15/1965, pp. 298-300, 305-307

    8/15/1963, pp. 483-484

    1/1/1961, p. 31

    6/1/1960, pp. 332-334

    3/1/1960, p. 140

    Awake!,

    11/8/1978, p. 8

  • Publications Index

    it-1 990;

    w79 4/15 26; fl 63, 65, 142; g78 11/8 8; w74 441; w70 253, 390; w65 299, 306, 388, 483; g65 1/22 7; w63 484; g62 6/22 4; w61 31; w60 140, 333; w47 133

Proverbs 17:10

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1141

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1980, p. 28

    7/1/1978, pp. 3-4

    3/15/1961, pp. 176-178

    3/1/1960, pp. 137-139

    1/15/1954, pp. 54-56

    2/1/1951, pp. 90-92

  • Publications Index

    it-2 1141;

    w80 2/15 28; w78 7/1 3-4; fl 142-143; w61 177; g61 1/8 27; w60 138; w54 55; w51 91

Proverbs 17:11

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    17:11 In Hebrew this is a pun as if we said seeks rankly riotous aims and will have a rightly rancorous

Proverbs 17:13

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    17:13 Lit. bad will not budge from his house

Proverbs 17:14

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Awake!,

    2/8/2002, p. 24

    7/22/1982, p. 11

    10/22/1979, p. 10

    5/8/1979, pp. 14-15

    Book for All, p. 26

    The Watchtower,

    2/15/1980, p. 27

    8/15/1965, pp. 483-484

    9/15/1961, pp. 566-567

  • Publications Index

    g02 2/8 24; ba 26;

    g82 7/22 11; w80 2/15 27; g79 5/8 15; g79 10/22 10; w65 484; w61 567

Proverbs 17:15

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    5/1/1963, pp. 267-269

  • Publications Index

    w63 268

Proverbs 17:16

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    11/1/1976, p. 654

  • Publications Index

    w76 654

Proverbs 17:17

Footnotes

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    17:17 Or and a brother

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    7/1/2011, p. 8

    8/1/2005, pp. 6-7

    1/1/1980, p. 25

    9/1/1976, p. 521

    2/1/1974, p. 89

    7/15/1973, p. 421

    3/1/1973, p. 157

    12/15/1972, p. 740

    12/15/1968, pp. 739-740

    7/15/1966, p. 423

    12/15/1964, pp. 739-740

    9/15/1964, pp. 550-551

    7/15/1962, pp. 419-420

    2/15/1962, pp. 104-105

    2/15/1951, pp. 101-103

    Awake!,

    3/8/1982, p. 21

    3/8/1980, p. 3

    Youth, pp. 59-60, 170

  • Publications Index

    w11 7/1 8; w05 8/1 6-7;

    g82 3/8 21; w80 1/1 25; g80 3/8 3; w76 521; yy 59-60, 170; w74 89; w73 157; w73 421; w72 740; w68 739; w66 423; w64 551, 739; w62 104, 420; w51 102; w45 78; w31 108

Proverbs 17:18

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 217, 1058

    Awake!,

    10/8/1978, pp. 17-18

    The Watchtower,

    12/15/1971, p. 767

    8/15/1962, pp. 508-510

  • Publications Index

    it-1 217, 1058;

    g78 10/8 17-18; w71 767; w62 509

Proverbs 17:19

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    17:19 Codd. One who loves crime

  • *

    17:19 Lit. hunting for a crash

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    5/15/1993, p. 30

    5/15/1987, p. 29

    3/15/1961, p. 187

  • Publications Index

    w93 5/15 30; w87 5/15 29;

    w61 187

Proverbs 17:20

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    17:20 Or by disaster

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    4/15/1974, p. 246

  • Publications Index

    w74 246; w47 134

Proverbs 17:21

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1961, pp. 174-176

  • Publications Index

    g64 11/22 8; w61 175

Proverbs 17:22

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    17:22 Or bones

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Enjoy Life Forever!, lesson 2

    Insight, Volume 1, pp. 632-633

    Awake!,

    8/2011, p. 29

    8/8/2000, p. 8

    6/22/1997, p. 25

    5/22/1994, pp. 26-27

    3/8/1991, p. 9

    8/22/1974, pp. 18-19

    12/22/1973, p. 10

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1993, p. 22

    3/1/1990, p. 4

    7/15/1984, p. 21

    4/1/1981, p. 15

    9/1/1980, p. 11

    3/1/1978, pp. 3-4

    11/1/1977, p. 646

    6/15/1963, pp. 359-360

    5/15/1961, pp. 302-303

    3/1/1960, pp. 146-148

  • Publications Index

    lff lesson 2; it-1 632-633; g 8/11 29; g00 8/8 8; g97 6/22 25; g94 5/22 26-27; w93 3/15 22; g91 3/8 9; w90 3/1 4;

    w84 7/15 21; w81 4/1 15; w80 9/1 11; w78 3/1 4; w77 646; g74 8/22 19; g73 12/22 10; ad 453; w63 360; w61 302; w60 147; v-2 283

Proverbs 17:23

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 366

  • Publications Index

    it-1 366;

    ad 260

Proverbs 17:24

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Insight, Volume 1, p. 790

    Insight, Volume 2, p. 1140

    The Watchtower,

    9/15/2006, p. 19

    11/1/1976, p. 654

    11/1/1957, pp. 662-664

    Awake!,

    9/8/1972, p. 27

  • Publications Index

    it-1 790; it-2 1140; w06 9/15 19;

    w76 654; g72 9/8 27; ad 551; w57 663

Proverbs 17:25

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1961, pp. 174-176

  • Publications Index

    fl 163; w61 175

Proverbs 17:26

Footnotes

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    17:26 Susp.

Proverbs 17:27

Footnotes

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    17:27 Lit. knows knowledge

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    Awake!,

    No. 1 2020 p. 9

    The Watchtower,

    3/15/1997, p. 14

    9/15/1990, pp. 21-22

    9/1/1973, p. 542

    6/1/1963, pp. 323-324

    7/15/1954, pp. 419-421

  • Publications Index

    g20.1 9; w97 3/15 14; w90 9/15 21-22;

    fl 38; w73 542; g64 6/8 3; w63 324; w54 420; w47 137; w44 245

Proverbs 17:28

Indexes

  • Research Guide

    The Watchtower,

    2/1/1952, p. 67

  • Publications Index

    g60 11/22 4; w52 67; w47 137; w44 245

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The Bible in Living English
Proverbs 17:1-28

Proverbs

17* Better a dry morsel and a quiet life by it

than a house full of dinner from ill-will sacrifices.

2 A capable slave will have control over a worthless son

and will share inheritance among brothers.

3 Crucible for silver and furnace for gold,

but he who assays hearts is Jehovah.

4* He is a malefactor who listens eagerly to a villainous lip;

it is falsehood that gives ear to a malignant tongue.

5 One who jeers at a poor man is insulting him who made him;

one who is glad at calamity will not be held innocent.

6 Grandchildren are old men’s coronet;

but sons’ adornment is their fathers.

7* A grandiloquent lip is not becoming to a rascal;

much less a falsifying lip to a noble.

8* A bribe shows itself to its user as a favor-charm:

whatever he faces toward, he succeeds.

9 One who is looking for love covers up an offense;

but one who harps on a matter alienates a bosom friend.

10 A rebuke sinks deeper into a man of sense

than a hundred cuts with a stick into a fool.

11* A bad man seeks merely insubordination,

and will have a cruel messenger let loose on him.

12 Let a man encounter a bear that has lost her cubs

but not a fool in his ignorance.

13* One who returns bad for good

will never have his house without bad.

14 The beginning of a quarrel is somebody letting a trickle start,

so give up your side of the dispute before anybody gets into a rage.

15 One who declares a man right when he is wrong and one who declares

him wrong when he is right

are both of them things that Jehovah detests.

16 Why should a fool have in his hands a fee

to buy wisdom when he has no brains?

17* The friend loves at every time,

but a brother is born for distress.

18 A brainless man strikes hands,

pledges a security before another.

19** One who loves a squabble loves a bruise;

one who makes his doorway tall is asking for a crash.

20* A man with a crooked heart will come to no good,

and a man with a reversible tongue will fall into disaster.

21 To one who begets a fool it becomes a sorrow,

and a rascal’s father will not be glad.

22* A glad heart gives good healing,

but a broken-down spirit dries out a bone.

23 A bribe is taken out of a rogue’s pocket

to warp the courses of justice.

24 Wisdom is face to face with a man of sense,

but a fool’s eyes are at earth’s end.

25 A foolish son is a vexation to his father

and a bitterness to her who gave him birth.

26* Even fining an honest man is not good,

giving beatings to noble men for uprightness.

27* One who restrains his speech knows what is what,

and one with a cool spirit is a man of intelligence.

28 Even an ignoramus holding his tongue will be thought wise;

one who stops up his lips is sensible.

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