Proverbs 9:6
Leave your foolish ways and you will live; follow the path that makes sense.”
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
In Context
5“Come, eat my food, and drink the wine I have mixed.
7If you correct a mocker all you get are insults; if you argue with the wicked all you get is abuse.
Cross References
Psalms 45:10Listen to what I have to say, daughter; please pay attention. Don't pine for your people and your family.
Proverbs 4:11I have explained to you the way of wisdom; I have guided you along the right paths.
Proverbs 8:35For those who find me, find life, and are accepted by the Lord.
Proverbs 10:17If you accept instruction, you're on the path to life, but if you reject correction you'll go astray.
Matthew 7:13Enter by the narrow entrance. For the entrance is wide, and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and many travel that way.
Acts 2:40Peter went on speaking, giving them much more evidence. He warned them, “Save yourselves from this perverted 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 →