Proverbs 13:15
A good understanding winneth favor; But the way of transgressors is hard.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
In Context
14The instruction of the wise is a fountain of life; By it men escape from the snares of death.
16Every prudent man acteth with knowledge; But a fool spreadeth abroad his folly.
Cross References
Psalms 111:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all they who keep his commandments; His praise endureth for ever.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as thick darkness; They know not at what they stumble.
Proverbs 15:10Sore chastisement shall be to him that forsaketh the way; He that hateth reproof shall die.
Luke 2:52And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
Romans 6:21What fruit then had ye at that time from those things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:15
14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. By the law of the wise and righteous, here, we may understand either the principles and rules by which they govern themselves or (which comes all to one) the instructions which they give to others, which ought to be as a law to all about them; and if they be so, 1. They will be constant springs of comfort and satisfaction, as a fountain of life, sending forth streams of living water; the closer we keep to those rules the more… Read the whole commentary →