Proverbs 28:24
He who robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression, the same is the companion of a destroyer.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
23He who rebukes a man shall afterward find more favor than he who flatters with the tongue.
25He who is of a greedy spirit stirs up strife, but he who puts his trust in LORD shall be made fat.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:20Walk with wise men, and thou shall be wise. But the companion of fools shall smart for it.
Proverbs 19:26He who does violence to his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame and brings reproach.
Proverbs 28:7He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:24
23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. Note, 1. Flatterers may please those for a time who, upon second thoughts, will detest and despise them. If ever they come to be convinced of the evil of those sinful courses they were flattered in, and to be ashamed of the pride and vanity which were humoured and gratified by those flatteries, they will hate the fawning flatterers as having had an ill design upon them, and the fulsome flatteries as having had an… Read the whole commentary →