Proverbs 15:33
The fear of LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor [is] humility.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
In Context
32He who refuses correction despises his own soul, but he who hearkens to reproof gets understanding.
Cross References
Job 28:28And to man he said, Behold, the fear of LORD, that is wisdom, and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psalms 111:10The fear of LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and all who act accordingly have a good understanding. His praise endures forever.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of LORD is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 25:6Put not thyself forward in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men.
Luke 14:11Because every man who lifts himself up will be made lower, and he who makes himself lower will be lifted up.
James 4:10Be ye made lower in the sight of the Lord, and he will lift you up.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:33
32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. See here, 1. The folly of those that will not be taught, that refuse instruction, that will not heed it, but turn their backs upon it, or will not hear it, but turn their hearts against it. They refuse correction (margin); they will not take it, no, not from God himself, but kick against the pricks. Those that do so despise their own souls; they show that they have a low and mean opinion of them, and are in… Read the whole commentary →