Proverbs 8:33
Listen to discipline, and become wise, and do not be willing to cast it aside.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
In Context
32Therefore, sons, hear me now. Blessed are those who preserve my ways.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:2in order to know wisdom and discipline,
Proverbs 1:8Listen, my son, to the discipline of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother,
Proverbs 4:1Listen, sons, to the discipline of a father, and pay attention, so that you may know prudence.
Isaiah 55:1All you who thirst, come to the waters. And you who have no money: hurry, buy and eat. Approach, buy wine and milk, without money and without barter.
Romans 10:16But not all are obedient to the Gospel. For Isaiah says: “Lord, who has believed our report?”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:33-36
Wisdom's Exhortation. 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord . 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. We have here the application of Wisdom's discourse; the design and tendency of it is to… Read the whole commentary →