Proverbs 9:6
Leave your simple ways, and live.Walk in the way of understanding."
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
In Context
5"Come, eat some of my bread,Drink some of the wine which I have mixed!
7He who corrects a mocker invites insult.He who reproves a wicked man invites abuse.
Cross References
Psalms 45:10Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear.Forget your own people, and also your father's house.
Proverbs 4:11I have taught you in the way of wisdom.I have led you in straight paths.
Proverbs 8:35For whoever finds me, finds life,and will obtain favor from the Lord.
Proverbs 10:17He is in the way of life who heeds correction,but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray.
Matthew 7:13"Enter in by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many are those who enter in by it.
Acts 2:40With many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation!"
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 9:2-13
The Invitation of Wisdom. 1 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars: 2 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. 3 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city, 4 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him, 5 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled. 6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding. 7 He that… Read the whole commentary →