Proverbs 19:27
A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
In Context
26He who is violent to his father, driving away his mother, is a son causing shame and a bad name.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1If ever you have among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
1 Kings 22:22And the Lord said, How? And he said, I will go out and be a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Your trick will have its effect on him: go out and do so.
Proverbs 14:7Go away from the foolish man, for you will not see the lips of knowledge.
Matthew 16:6And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mark 4:24And he said to them, Take care what you give ear to: in the same measure as you give you will get, and more will be given to you.
John 10:5They will not go after another who is not their keeper, but will go from him in flight, because his voice is strange to them.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:27
26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach. Here is, 1. The sin of a prodigal son. Besides the wrong he does to himself, he is injurious to his good parents, and basely ungrateful to those that were instruments of his being and have taken so much care and pains about him, which is a great aggravation of his sin and renders it exceedingly sinful in the eyes of God and man: He wastes is father, wastes his estate which he should have to support him… Read the whole commentary →