Proverbs 28:7
He that keepeth the Law, is a childe of vnderstanding: but hee that feedeth the gluttons, shameth his father.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My sonne, if thou wilt receiue my wordes, and hide my commandements within thee,
Proverbs 3:1My sonne, forget not thou my Lawe, but let thine heart keepe my commandements.
Proverbs 23:19O thou my sonne, heare, and bee wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
Proverbs 28:24Hee that robbeth his father and mother, and sayth, It is no transgression, is the companion of a man that destroyeth.
Proverbs 29:15The rodde and correction giue wisdome: but a childe set a libertie, maketh his mother ashamed.
Luke 15:30But when this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy good with harlots, thou hast for his sake killed the fat calfe.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:7
6 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Here, 1. It is supposed that a man may walk in his uprightness and yet be poor in this world, which is a temptation to dishonesty, and yet may resist the temptation and continue to walk in his uprightness —also that a man may be perverse in his ways, injurious to God and man, and yet be rich, and prosper in the world, for a while, may be rich, and so lie under great obligations and have great… Read the whole commentary →