Proverbs 24:14
Similarly, being wise is good for your soul; if you become wise, you will be happy in the future, and God will certainly do for you what you are confidently expecting him to do [LIT].
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Psalms 19:11Furthermore, by reading them I learn what things are good to do and what things are evil, and they promise a great reward to us who obey them.
Psalms 119:111◄Your requirements/What you have instructed us to do► are my possession forever; because of them [PRS], I am joyful.
Proverbs 2:10because you will be wise in your inner being; and knowing what God wants you to know will cause you to be joyful.
Proverbs 22:18It will be good to ◄keep these things in your minds/always remember them►, because if you do that, you will be able to quote/recite them to others.
Jeremiah 15:16Yahweh my God, you are the Commander of the armies of angels; and when you spoke to me, I was delighted with your message; it caused me to be joyful, and I eagerly accepted [MET] what you said because I belong to you. [IDM, MTY]
James 1:25But other people look closely at God’s message, which is perfect and which sets people free to voluntarily do what God wants them to do. And if they continue to examine God’s message and do not just hear it and then forget it, but do what God tells them to do, God will bless them because of what they do.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:14-15
13 My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste: 14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off. We are here quickened to the study of wisdom by the consideration both of the pleasure and the profit of it. 1. It will be very pleasant. We eat honey because it is sweet to the taste, and upon that account we call it good, especially that which runs first from the… Read the whole commentary →