Proverbs 19:27
Son, do not cease listening to doctrine, and do not be ignorant of the sermons of knowledge.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
In Context
26Whoever afflicts his father and flees from his mother is disreputable and unhappy.
28An unjust witness ridicules judgment. And the mouth of the impious devours iniquity.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1“If there will have arisen in your midst a prophet, or someone who claims that he had seen a dream, and if he will have predicted sign and portent,
1 Kings 22:22And he said, ‘I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.’ And the Lord said: ‘You will deceive him, and you will prevail. Go forth, and do so.’
Proverbs 14:7Go against a foolish man, and he does not acknowledge lips of prudence.
Matthew 16:6And he said to them, “Consider and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”
Mark 4:24And he said to them: “Consider what you hear. With whatever measure you have measured out, it shall be measured back to you, and more shall be added to you.
John 10:5But they do not follow a stranger; instead they flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.”
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 →