Proverbs 23:23 (BSB)

Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.

From Proverbs 23. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 23:23

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 23:19-28: Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go. Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: "Here, my son, and be wise, Pro 23:19.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 23:23: Buy the truth, and sell it not,.... Evangelical truth, the word of truth, the Gospel of salvation, which comes from the God of truth; has Christ, who is the truth, for the stem and substance of it; men are directed and led into it by the Spirit of truth; the whole matter of it is truth; truth, in opposition to the law, that was typical...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 23:23: Buy--literally, "get" (Pro 4:5). truth--generally and specially as opposed to errors of all kinds.
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 23:23: Buy the truth, and sell [it] not; [also] wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (k) Spare no cost for truths sake, neither depart from it for any gain.