Proverbs 28:7
He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
In Context
6Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
Proverbs 3:1My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:
Proverbs 23:19Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
Proverbs 28:24He who takes from his father or his mother what is theirs by right, and says, It is no sin; is the same as a taker of life.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and sharp words give wisdom: but a child who is not guided is a cause of shame to his mother.
Luke 15:30But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:7
6 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Here, 1. It is supposed that a man may walk in his uprightness and yet be poor in this world, which is a temptation to dishonesty, and yet may resist the temptation and continue to walk in his uprightness —also that a man may be perverse in his ways, injurious to God and man, and yet be rich, and prosper in the world, for a while, may be rich, and so lie under great obligations and have great… Read the whole commentary →