Proverbs 24:14

Such is wisdom for your soul— 1 if you find it, there will be a future 1 and your hope will not be cut off. 1

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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.

In Context

13My son, eat honey because it is good, 1 because the drippings of the honeycomb are sweet to your taste. 1

15Do not lie in wait like the wicked person 1 who attacks the house of the righteous person. 1 Do not destroy his home! 1

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Cross References

Psalms 19:11Yes, by them your servant is warned; 1 in obeying them there is great reward. 1

Psalms 119:111I claim your covenant decrees as my heritage forever, 1 for they are the joy of my heart. 1

Proverbs 2:10For wisdom will come into your heart, 1 and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. 1

Proverbs 22:18for it will be pleasant for you if you keep them within you, 1 if all of them are ready on your lips. 1

Jeremiah 15:16Your words have been found, and I consumed them. Your words became to me a joy 1 and the delight of my heart, 1 for I bear your name, Yahweh, God of hosts. 1

James 1:25But the person who looks carefully into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so, not just being a hearer who forgets, this man will be blessed in his actions.

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 →

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