Proverbs 9:6
Leave your simple ways, and live. Walk in the way of understanding.”
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
In Context
5“Come, eat some of my bread, Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
7One who corrects a mocker invites insult. One who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
Cross References
Psalms 45:10Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father’s house.
Proverbs 4:11I have taught you in the way of wisdom. I have led you in straight paths.
Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favor from the LORD.
Proverbs 10:17He is in the way of life who heeds correction, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
Matthew 7:13“Enter in by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter in by it.
Acts 2:40With many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked 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 →