Proverbs 15:11
Hell and perdition are in the sight of the Lord. How much more the hearts of the sons of men!
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Hell and destruction are before the LORD: how much more then the hearts of the children of men?
In Context
10Doctrine is evil to those who abandon the way of life. Whoever hates correction shall die.
12He who corrupts himself does not love the one who afflicts him, nor will he step toward the wise.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:30you will heed him from heaven, indeed from your sublime habitation, and you will forgive, and you will repay each one according to his ways, which you know him to hold in his heart. For you alone know the hearts of the sons of men.
Psalms 7:9The Lord judges the people. Judge me, O Lord, according to my justice and according to my innocence within me.
Psalms 139:8Lord, O Lord, the strength of my salvation: you have overshadowed my head in the day of war.
Jeremiah 17:10I am the Lord, who examines the heart and tests the temperament, who gives to each one according to his way and according to the fruit of his own decisions.
John 21:17He said to him a third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was very grieved that he had asked him a third time, “Do you love me?” And so he said to him: “Lord, you know all things. You know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my sheep.
Revelation 1:18And I am alive, though I was dead. And, behold, I live forever and ever. And I hold the keys of death and of Hell.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:11
10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die. This shows that those who cannot bear to be corrected must expect to be destroyed. 1. It is common for those who have known the way of righteousness, but have forsaken it, to reckon it a great affront to be reproved and admonished. They are very uneasy at reproof; they cannot, they will not, bear it; nay, because they hate to be reformed, they hate to be reproved, and hate those who deal faithfully and kindly with… Read the whole commentary →