Proverbs 26:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.

Proverbs 26:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 22:47-48
And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him. …
Luke 11:39
And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
Proverbs 10:18
He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander, is a fool.
Proverbs 25:4
Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer.
Matthew 23:27
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Topics

Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling Dross Falsehood

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23)

This may be meant either, 1. Of a wicked heart showing itself in burning lips, furious, passionate, outrageous words, burning in malice, and persecuting those to whom, or of whom, they are spoken; ill words and ill-will agree as well together as a potsherd and the dross of silver, which, now that the pot is broken and the dross separated from the silver, are fit to be thrown together to the dunghi…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. Warm professions can no more give value to insincerity than silver coating to rude earthenware.