Proverbs 27:19
Just as water reflects your face, your mind reflects who you really are.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.
In Context
18Those who care for a fig tree eat its fruit, and those who care for their master are rewarded.
20In the same way that the grave and destruction are never satisfied, human desire is never satisfied.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5The Lord saw how terribly evil people on earth had become—every single thought in their minds was evil all the time!
Mark 7:21It's from the inside, from people's minds, that evil thoughts come: sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:19
18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured. This is designed to encourage diligence, faithfulness, and constancy, even in mean employments. Though the calling be laborious and despicable, yet those who keep to it will find there is something to be got by it. 1. Let not a poor gardener, who keeps the fig-tree, be discouraged; though it require constant care and attendance to nurse up fig-trees, and, when they have grown to maturity, to keep them in… Read the whole commentary →