Proverbs 23:18
16 My inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.
17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
19 Listen, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart on the right course.
20 Do not join those who drink too much wine or gorge themselves on meat.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For surely there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
- KJV
- For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
- WEB
- Indeed surely there is a future hope, and your hope will not be cut off.
- ASV
- For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.
- DARBY
- for surely there is a result, and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
- BLB
- For surely there is a posterity, and your hope will not be cut off.
- ÅB
- Sannelig, det er en fremtid for deg, og ditt håp skal ikke bli til intet.
- OTB
- Sannelig er det et fremtidshåp for deg, og ditt håp vil ikke bli avskåret.
- B1930
- Sannelig, det er en fremtid for dig, og ditt håp skal ikke bli til intet.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hebrews 10:35
So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
Read in contextJeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
Read in contextPsalms 9:18
For the needy will not always be forgotten; nor the hope of the oppressed forever dashed.
Read in contextProverbs 24:14
Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
Read in contextPhilippians 1:20
I eagerly expect and hope that I will in no way be ashamed, but will have complete boldness so that now as always Christ will be exalted in my body, whether by life or by death.
Read in contextProverbs 24:20
For the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be extinguished.
Read in contextRomans 6:21–22
What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
Read in contextPsalms 37:37
Consider the blameless and observe the upright, for posterity awaits the man of peace.
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