Proverbs 28:24
Anyone who steals things from his father or his mother and says “That is not sinful” is as bad as a bandit.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
25Greedy people cause trouble/strife; those who trust in Yahweh will prosper [IDM].
Cross References
Proverbs 13:20Those who habitually associate with wise people become wise; those who ◄are close friends of/associate with► foolish people will ◄regret it/be ruined►.
Proverbs 19:26Anyone who mistreats/abuses his father or forces his mother to leave the home is a child who is acting shamefully and disgracefully.
Proverbs 28:7Young people who obey the laws are wise [IDM]; parents whose children associate with those who ◄carouse/go to wild parties► are humiliated/disgraced because of what their children do.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:24
23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. Note, 1. Flatterers may please those for a time who, upon second thoughts, will detest and despise them. If ever they come to be convinced of the evil of those sinful courses they were flattered in, and to be ashamed of the pride and vanity which were humoured and gratified by those flatteries, they will hate the fawning flatterers as having had an ill design upon them, and the fulsome flatteries as having had an… Read the whole commentary →