Proverbs 28:24
Hee that robbeth his father and mother, and sayth, It is no transgression, is the companion of a man that destroyeth.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
23He that rebuketh a man, shall finde more fauour at length, then he that flattereth with his tongue.
25He that is of a proude heart, stirreth vp strife: but he that trusteth in the Lord, shall be fatte.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with the wise, shalbe wise: but a companion of fooles shalbe afflicted.
Proverbs 19:26He that destroyeth his father, or chaseth away his mother, is a lewde and shamefull childe.
Proverbs 28:7He that keepeth the Law, is a childe of vnderstanding: but hee that feedeth the gluttons, shameth his father.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:24
23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. Note, 1. Flatterers may please those for a time who, upon second thoughts, will detest and despise them. If ever they come to be convinced of the evil of those sinful courses they were flattered in, and to be ashamed of the pride and vanity which were humoured and gratified by those flatteries, they will hate the fawning flatterers as having had an ill design upon them, and the fulsome flatteries as having had an… Read the whole commentary →