Proverbs 9:6
Leave your simple ways, and live. 2 Walk in the way of understanding.” 1
One Unity Resource Bible
In The King James Version
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
In Context
5“Come, eat some of my bread, 2 Drink some of the wine which I have mixed! 1
7He who corrects a mocker invites insult. 2 He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse. 1
Cross References
Psalms 45:10Sh'ma ·Hear obey·, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. 2 Forget your own people, and also your father’s house. 2
Proverbs 4:11I have taught you in the way of wisdom. 2 I have led you in straight paths. 1
Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me, finds life, 2 and will obtain favor from Adonai. 1
Proverbs 10:17He is in the way of life who heeds correction, 2 but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray. 1
Matthew 7:13+ 7:13 (13-14) MP: Pathway for the upright, those who are clean, to walk in, (waters in the desert Is 35:7) and not for those unclean. (See also Is 29:18-19). (Is 35:8) “Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
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 →