Proverbs 28:7
If you keep the law, you're a wise son, but if you keep bad company you shame your father.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
In Context
6Better to be poor and have integrity than to be devious and rich.
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you accept what I say and value my instructions,
Proverbs 3:1My son, don't forget my instructions. Always keep my commands in mind.
Proverbs 23:19Pay attention, my son, and be wise; make sure your mind concentrates on following the right way.
Proverbs 28:24A man who robs his father and mother, and says, “It's not a crime,” is one step away from becoming a murderer.
Proverbs 29:15Discipline and correction provide wisdom, but a son left undisciplined is an embarrassment to his mother.
Luke 15:30Now this son of yours comes back, having spent your money on prostitutes, and you kill the fattened calf for him!’
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:7
6 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Here, 1. It is supposed that a man may walk in his uprightness and yet be poor in this world, which is a temptation to dishonesty, and yet may resist the temptation and continue to walk in his uprightness —also that a man may be perverse in his ways, injurious to God and man, and yet be rich, and prosper in the world, for a while, may be rich, and so lie under great obligations and have great… Read the whole commentary →