Proverbs 28:24
+ 28:24 Mark 7:11. He that casts off father or mother, and thinks he sins not; the same is partaker with an ungodly man.
LXX2012 (British)
In The King James Version
In Context
23He that reproves a man's ways shall have more favour than he that flatters with the tongue.
25An unbelieving man judges rashly: but he that trusts in the Lord will act carefully.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:20If you walk with wise men you shall be wise: but he that walks with fools shall be known.
Proverbs 19:26He that dishonours his father, and drives away his mother, shall be disgraced and shall be exposed to reproach.
Proverbs 28:7A wise son keeps the law: but he that keeps up debauchery dishonours his father.
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 →