Proverbs 24:3
People make good houses (OR, families) by doing what is wise, and they make their houses (OR, families) strong by heeding good advice.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:26When that happens, you will become famous forever, and people will exclaim, ‘The Almighty Commander of the armies of angels is the God who rules Israel.’ And you will cause that forever there will be descendants of mine who will rule.
Proverbs 14:1Wise women [PRS] hold their families together by the wise things that they do, but foolish women ruin their families by the foolish things that they do.
1 Corinthians 3:9Remember that Apollos and I are both working together for God. You do not belong to us. Just like a field belongs to its owner, not to those who work in it, you belong to God, not to us who work for him. Also, a house belongs to its owner. It does not belong to the man who built it. Similarly, God is the one to whom you belong.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 24:2-3
The Excellence of Wisdom. 1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. 2 For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief. Here, 1. The caution given is much the same with that which we had before ( ch. xxiii. 17 ), not to envy sinners, not to think them happy, nor to wish ourselves in their condition, though they prosper ever so much in this world, and are ever so merry and ever so secure. "Let not such a thought ever come into thy mind, O that I could shake off the… Read the whole commentary →