Proverbs 13:2
A man shall eate good things by the fruite of his mouth: but the soule of the trespassers shall suffer violence.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
1A wise sonne will obey the instruction of his father: but a scorner will heare no rebuke.
Cross References
Psalms 75:8For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full mixt, and he powreth out of the same: surely all the wicked of the earth shall wring out and drinke the dregges thereof.
Proverbs 1:11If they say, Come with vs, we will lay waite for blood, and lie priuilie for the innocent without a cause:
Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eate of ye fruite of their owne way, and be filled with their owne deuises.
Proverbs 10:11The mouth of a righteous man is a welspring of life: but iniquitie couereth the mouth of the wicked.
Proverbs 12:14A man shalbe satiate with good things by the fruite of his mouth, and the recompence of a mans hands shall God giue vnto him.
Jeremiah 25:27Therefore say thou vnto them, Thus saith the Lord of hostes, the God of Israel, Drinke and bee drunken, and spewe and fall, and rise no more, because of the sworde, which I will sende among you.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 13:2
Moral Maxims. 1 A wise son heareth his father's instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke. Among the children of the same parents it is no new thing for some to be hopeful and others the contrary; now here we are taught to distinguish. 1. There is great hope of those that have a reverence for their parents, and are willing to be advised and admonished by them. He is a wise son, and is in a far way to be wiser, that hears his father's instruction, desires to hear it, regards it, and complies with it, and does… Read the whole commentary →