Proverbs 19:27
My son, stop listening to my instruction and you'll soon give up following wisdom.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
In Context
26A son who abuses his father and chases away his mother brings shame and disgrace.
28A crooked witness makes a mockery of justice; and the wicked wolf down evil.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1Maybe a prophet or someone who has dreams about the future will come along and give you a prediction about some sign or miracle,
1 Kings 22:22‘How are you going to do that?’ the Lord asked. ‘I will go and be a lying spirit and make all his prophets tell lies,’ the spirit replied. ‘That will work,’ the Lord responded. ‘Go and do it.’
Proverbs 14:7Stay away from stupid people—you won't learn anything from them.
Matthew 16:6“Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees,” Jesus told them.
Mark 4:24Pay attention to what you're hearing,” he told them, “for you will be given according to how much you want to receive, measure for measure.
John 10:5They won't follow strangers. In fact they run away from a stranger because they don't recognize the voice of strangers.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:27
26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach. Here is, 1. The sin of a prodigal son. Besides the wrong he does to himself, he is injurious to his good parents, and basely ungrateful to those that were instruments of his being and have taken so much care and pains about him, which is a great aggravation of his sin and renders it exceedingly sinful in the eyes of God and man: He wastes is father, wastes his estate which he should have to support him… Read the whole commentary →