Proverbs 24:14

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.

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In The King James Version

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, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;

15Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;

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Cross References

Psalms 19:11Moreover your servant is warned by them. In keeping them there is great reward.

Psalms 119:111I have taken your testimonies as a heritage forever, for they are the joy of my heart.

Proverbs 2:10For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

Proverbs 22:18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.

Jeremiah 15:16Your words were found, and I ate them. Your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart, for I am called by your name, LORD, God of Hosts.

James 1:25But he who looks into the perfect Torah of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

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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