Proverbs 13:18
Whoever is refusing instruction—poverty and shame, || And whoever is observing reproof is honored.
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In Context
17A wicked messenger falls into evil, || And a faithful ambassador is healing.
Cross References
Proverbs 5:9Lest you give your splendor to others, || And your years to the fierce,
Proverbs 12:1Whoever is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, || And whoever is hating reproof [is] brutish.
Proverbs 15:5A fool despises the instruction of his father, || And whoever is regarding reproof is prudent.
Proverbs 19:6Many beg the face of the noble, || And all have made friendship to a man of gifts.
Jeremiah 3:25We have lain down in our shame, and our confusion covers us, || For we have sinned against our God YHWH, || We, and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, || Nor have we listened to the voice of our God YHWH!”
Hebrews 12:25Watch out lest you refuse Him who is speaking, for if those did not escape who refused him who was divinely speaking on earth—much less we who turn away from Him who [speaks] from Heaven,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:18
17 A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. Here we have, 1. The ill consequences of betraying a trust. A wicked messenger, who, being sent to negotiate any business, is false to him that employed him, divulges his counsels, and so defeats his designs, cannot expect to prosper, but will certainly fall into some mischief or other, will be discovered and punished, since nothing is more hateful to God and man than the treachery of those that have a confidence reposed in them. 2.… Read the whole commentary →