Proverbs 14:15
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
In Context
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:5And David said unto the young man that told him, How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead?
Nehemiah 6:4And they sent unto me four times after this sort; and I answered them after the same manner.
Proverbs 14:8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs 27:12A prudent man seeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
Acts 13:7which was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. The same called unto him Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God.
Ephesians 4:14that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight 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 →