Proverbs 9:6
Leave your naive actions and live; 1 walk in the path of understanding. 1
Unlocked Literal Bible
In The King James Version
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
In Context
5“Come, eat my food, 1 and drink the wine I have mixed. 1
Cross References
Psalms 45:10Listen, daughter, consider and incline your ear; 1 forget your own people and your father's house. 1
Proverbs 4:11I direct you in the way of wisdom; 1 I lead you down straight paths. 1
Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me, finds life, 1 and he will find the favor of Yahweh. 1
Proverbs 10:17There is a path to life for the one who follows discipline, 1 but the one who rejects correction is led astray. 1
Matthew 7:13Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many people who go through it.
Acts 2:40With many other words he testified and urged them; he said, “Save yourselves from this wicked generation.”
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:2-13
The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 He that… Read the whole commentary →