Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The foolish despise wisdom as well as doctrine.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
In Context
8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
Cross References
Psalms 111:10The sinner will see and become angry. He will gnash his teeth and waste away. The desire of sinners will perish.
Proverbs 1:29For they held hatred for discipline, and they would not accept the fear of the Lord;
Proverbs 9:10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of holiness is prudence.
Proverbs 15:33The fear of the Lord is the discipline of wisdom. And humility precedes glory.
Ecclesiastes 12:13Let us all listen together to the end of the discourse. Fear God, and observe his commandments. This is everything for man.
Romans 1:28And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting:
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:2-7
Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use of by the Holy Ghost for making known the mind of God to us, writing as moved by the finger of God (so the Spirit of God is called), and that is Solomon; through his hand came this book of Scripture and the two that follow it, Ecclesiastes and Canticles, a sermon and a song. Some think he wrote Canticles when he was very young, Proverbs in the midst of his days, and Ecclesiastes when he was old. In the title of his… Read the whole commentary →