Proverbs 13:15
Good vnderstanding maketh acceptable: but the way of the disobedient is hated.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
In Context
14The instruction of a wise man is as the welspring of life, to turne away from the snares of death.
16Euery wise man will worke by knowledge: but a foole will spread abroade folly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:14And Dauid behaued himselfe wisely in all his wayes: for the Lord was with him.
Psalms 111:10The beginning of wisedome is the feare of the Lord: all they that obserue them, haue good vnderstanding: his praise endureth for euer.
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is as the darkenes: they knowe not wherein they shall fall.
Proverbs 15:10Instruction is euill to him that forsaketh the way, and he that hateth correction, shall die.
Luke 2:52And Iesus increased in wisedome, and stature, and in fauour with God and men.
Romans 6:21What fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are nowe ashamed? For the ende of those things is death.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:15
14 The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death. By the law of the wise and righteous, here, we may understand either the principles and rules by which they govern themselves or (which comes all to one) the instructions which they give to others, which ought to be as a law to all about them; and if they be so, 1. They will be constant springs of comfort and satisfaction, as a fountain of life, sending forth streams of living water; the closer we keep to those rules the more… Read the whole commentary →