Proverbs 14:15
A simple man believes everything,but the prudent man carefully considers his ways.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
In Context
14The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways;likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.
16A wise man fears, and shuns evil,but the fool is hotheaded and reckless.
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:5David said to the young man who told him, "How do you know that Saul and Jonathan his son are dead?"
Nehemiah 6:4They sent to me four times after this sort; and I answered them the same way.
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way,but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs 27:12A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge;but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Acts 13:7who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. This man summoned Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
Ephesians 4:14that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 14:15
The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted. 14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. Note, 1. The misery of sinners will be an eternal surfeit upon their sins: The backslider in heart, who for fear of suffering, or in hope of profit or pleasure, forsakes God and his duty, shall be filled with his own ways; God will give him enough of them. They would not leave their brutish lusts and passions, and therefore they shall stick by them, to their… Read the whole commentary →