Proverbs 28:24

Who so robbeth his father and mother, and sayth it is no sinne: the same is the companion of a destroyer.

Bible (Bishops')

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 folowyng my preceptes rebuketh a man, shall fynde more fauour at the last then he that flattereth hym.

25He that is of a proude stomacke stirreth vp strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lorde shalbe well fed.

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Cross References

Proverbs 13:20He that goeth in the companie of wise men, shalbe wise: but who so is a companion of fooles, shalbe afflicted.

Proverbs 19:26He that hurteth his father, or shutteth out his mother, is a shamefull and an vnworthy sonne.

Proverbs 28:7Who so kepeth the lawe, is a chylde of vnderstanding: but he that is a companion of riotous men, 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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