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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Proverbs 13:17 Catholic Bible: Unreliable messengers cause trouble, but those who can be trusted bring peace. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/proverbs/13-17.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/proverbs/13-17.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" 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cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../proverbs/13-16.htm" title="Proverbs 13:16">◄</a> Proverbs 13:17 <a href="../proverbs/13-18.htm" title="Proverbs 13:18">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/proverbs/13.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/proverbs/13.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Unreliable messengers cause trouble, but those who can be trusted bring peace. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/proverbs/13.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />A bad messenger brings trouble, but a faithful envoy, healing.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/proverbs/13.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Whoever delivers your message can make things better or worse for you. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/proverbs/13.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />A wicked messenger brings on disaster, but a trustworthy envoy is a healing remedy. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/proverbs/13.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.</p><p class="hdg">wicked</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/10-26.htm">Proverbs 10:26</a> The fear of the Lord shall prolong days: and the years of the wicked shall be shortened.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/26-6.htm">Proverbs 26:6</a> He that sendeth words by a foolish messenger, is lame of feet and drinketh iniquity.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/23-13.htm">Jeremiah 23:13-16,28</a> And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied in Baal and deceived my people Israel. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/3-18.htm">Ezekiel 3:18</a> If, when I say to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: thou declare it not to him, nor speak to him, that he may be converted from his wicked way, and live: the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at thy hand.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/33-7.htm">Ezekiel 33:7,8</a> So thou, O son of man, I have made thee a watchman to the house of Israel: therefore thou shalt hear the word from my mouth, and shalt tell it them from me. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/2-17.htm">2 Corinthians 2:17</a> For we are not as many, adulterating the word of God: but with sincerity: but as from God, before God, in Christ we speak.</p><p class="hdg">but</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/25-13.htm">Proverbs 25:13,23</a> As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to him that sent him, for he refresheth his soul. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_corinthians/4-2.htm">1 Corinthians 4:2</a> Here now it is required among the dispensers that a man be found faithful.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_corinthians/5-20.htm">2 Corinthians 5:20</a> For Christ therefore we are ambassadors, God as it were exhorting by us, for Christ, we beseech you, be reconciled to God.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../1_timothy/1-12.htm">1 Timothy 1:12</a> I give him thanks who hath strengthened me, even to Christ Jesus our Lord, for that he hath counted me faithful, putting me in the ministry:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../2_timothy/2-2.htm">2 Timothy 2:2</a> And the things which thou hast heard of me by many witnesses, the same commend to faithful men who shall be fit to teach others also.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/proverbs/13.htm">A Father's Discipline</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">16</span>The prudent man doth all things with counsel: but he that is a fool, layeth open his folly. <span class="reftext">17</span><span class="highl">The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.</span><span class="reftext">18</span>Poverty and shame to him that refuseth instruction: but he that yieldeth to reproof shall be glorified.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/25-13.htm">Proverbs 25:13</a></span><br />As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to him that sent him, for he refresheth his soul.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../proverbs/13-18.htm">Proverbs 13:18</a></span><br />Poverty and shame to him that refuseth instruction: but he that yieldeth to reproof shall be glorified.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/proverbs/1-27.htm">Adversity</a> <a href="/philemon/1-9.htm">Ambassador</a> <a href="/proverbs/13-5.htm">Bad</a> <a href="/proverbs/12-26.htm">Cause</a> <a href="/ephesians/6-20.htm">Embassador</a> <a href="/luke/19-14.htm">Envoy</a> <a href="/proverbs/12-26.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/proverbs/11-13.htm">Faithful</a> <a href="/proverbs/11-28.htm">Falleth</a> <a href="/proverbs/11-14.htm">Falls</a> <a 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