Proverbs 9:6
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
In Context
5“Come, eat my bread and drink the wine I have mixed.
7He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.
Cross References
Psalms 45:10Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
Proverbs 4:11I will guide you in the way of wisdom; I will lead you on straight paths.
Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
Proverbs 10:17Whoever heeds instruction is on the path to life, but he who ignores reproof goes astray.
Matthew 7:13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
Acts 2:40With many other words he testified, and he urged them, “Be saved from this corrupt generation.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:2-13
The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 He that… Read the whole commentary →