Proverbs 13:18
Poverty and shame to him that refuseth instruction: but he that yieldeth to reproof, shall be glorified.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
17The messenger of the wicked shall fall into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.
19The desire that is accomplished, delighteth the soul: fools hate them that flee from evil things.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:9Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
Proverbs 12:1He that loveth correction, loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is foolish.
Proverbs 15:5A fool laugheth at the instruction of his father: but he that regardeth reproofs shall become prudent. In abundant justice there is the greatest strength: but the devices of the wicked shall be rooted out.
Proverbs 19:6Many honour the person of him that is mighty, and are friends of him that giveth gifts.
Jeremiah 3:25We shall sleep in our confusion, and our shame shall cover us, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers from our youth even to this day, and we have not hearkened to the voice of theLord our God.
Hebrews 12:25See that you refuse him not that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spoke upon the earth, much more shall not we, that turn away from him that speaketh to us from heaven.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:18
17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. Here we have, 1. The ill consequences of betraying a trust. A wicked messenger, who, being sent to negotiate any business, is false to him that employed him, divulges his counsels, and so defeats his designs, cannot expect to prosper, but will certainly fall into some mischief or other, will be discovered and punished, since nothing is more hateful to God and man than the treachery of those that have a confidence reposed in them. 2.… Read the whole commentary →