Proverbs 28:24

He that stealeth any thing from his father, or from his mother: and saith, This is no sin, is the partner of a murderer.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

In Context

23He that rebuketh a man, shall afterward find favour with him, more than he that by a flattering tongue deceiveth him.

25He that boasteth, and puffeth up himself, stirreth up quarrels: but he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be healed.

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Cross References

Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with the wise, shall be wise: a friend of fools shall become like to them.

Proverbs 19:26He that afflicteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is infamous and unhappy.

Proverbs 28:7He that keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that feedeth gluttons, shameth his father.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:24

23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. Note, 1. Flatterers may please those for a time who, upon second thoughts, will detest and despise them. If ever they come to be convinced of the evil of those sinful courses they were flattered in, and to be ashamed of the pride and vanity which were humoured and gratified by those flatteries, they will hate the fawning flatterers as having had an ill design upon them, and the fulsome flatteries as having had an… Read the whole commentary →

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