Proverbs 8:35
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
In Context
36But he who fails to find me harms himself; all who hate me love death.”
Cross References
Proverbs 1:33But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
Proverbs 4:13Hold on to instruction; do not let go. Guard it, for it is your life.
Proverbs 12:2The good man obtains favor from the LORD, but the LORD condemns a man who devises evil.
John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
Ephesians 1:6to the praise of His glorious grace, by which He has bestowed favor upon us in the Beloved One.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:33-36
Wisdom's Exhortation. 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord . 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. We have here the application of Wisdom's discourse; the design and tendency of it is to… Read the whole commentary →