Proverbs 1:10
My son, if sinners should entice you, do not consent to them.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
In Context
9so that grace may be added to your head and a collar to your neck.
Cross References
Genesis 37:20Come, let us kill him and cast him into the old cistern. And let us say: ‘an evil wild beast has devoured him.’ And then it will become apparent what his dreams will do for him.”
Deuteronomy 13:8you should neither agree with him, nor listen to him. And your eye should not spare him so that you take pity on him and conceal him.
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who has not followed the counsel of the impious, and has not remained in the way of sinners, and has not sat in the chair of pestilence.
Proverbs 7:21She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips.
Proverbs 16:29A man of iniquity entices his friend, and he leads him along a way that is not good.
Proverbs 24:2For their mind meditates on robberies, and their lips speak deceptions.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:8-10
Parental Admonitions. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. Solomon, having undertaken to teach a young man knowledge and discretion, here lays down two general rules to be observed in order thereunto, and those are, to fear God and honour his parents, which two fundamental laws of morality… Read the whole commentary →