Proverbs 28:7
He who keeps the law is a son who has understanding, 1 but one who is a companion of gluttons shames his father. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
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Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you receive my words 1 and treasure up my commandments with you, 1
Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my commands 1 and keep my teachings in your heart, 1
Proverbs 23:19Hear—you!—my son, and be wise 1 and direct your heart in the way. 1
Proverbs 28:24Whoever robs his father and his mother and says, “That is no sin,” 1 he is the companion of the one who destroys. 1
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom, 1 but a child freed from discipline puts his mother to shame. 1
Luke 15:30but when your son came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed for him the fattened calf.'
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:7
6 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Here, 1. It is supposed that a man may walk in his uprightness and yet be poor in this world, which is a temptation to dishonesty, and yet may resist the temptation and continue to walk in his uprightness —also that a man may be perverse in his ways, injurious to God and man, and yet be rich, and prosper in the world, for a while, may be rich, and so lie under great obligations and have great… Read the whole commentary →