Proverbs 14:15
A simple man believes every word, but the prudent man looks well to his going.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
In Context
14The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.
16A wise man fears, and departs from evil, but the fool bears himself insolently, and is confident.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:5And David said to the young man who told him, How do thou know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?
Nehemiah 6:4And they sent to me four times after this sort, and I answered them after the same manner.
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of a prudent man is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs 27:12A prudent man sees the evil, [and] hides himself. The simple pass on, [and] suffer for it.
Acts 13:7who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an intelligent man. This man, having summoned Barnabas and Saul, sought to hear the word of God.
Ephesians 4:14So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:15
The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted. 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. Note, 1. The misery of sinners will be an eternal surfeit upon their sins: The backslider in heart, who for fear of suffering, or in hope of profit or pleasure, forsakes God and his duty, shall be filled with his own ways; God will give him enough of them. They would not leave their brutish lusts and passions, and therefore they shall stick by them, to their… Read the whole commentary →