Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding wins favor;but the way of the unfaithful is hard.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
In Context
14The teaching of the wise is a spring of life,to turn from the snares of death.
16Every prudent man acts from knowledge,but a fool exposes folly.
Cross References
1 Samuel 18:14David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him.
Psalms 111:10The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.SHINAll those who do his work have a good understanding.TAVHis praise endures forever!
Proverbs 4:19The way of the wicked is like darkness.They do not know what they stumble over.
Proverbs 15:10There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way:whoever hates reproof shall die.
Luke 2:52And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
Romans 6:21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end 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 →