Proverbs 15:33
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
In Context
32He that refuses instruction despises his own soul: but he that hears reproof gets understanding.
Cross References
Job 28:28And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Psalms 111:10The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endures for ever.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Proverbs 25:6Put not forth yourself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:
Luke 14:11For whosoever exalts himself shall be brought low; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.
James 4:10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 15:33
32 He that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul: but he that heareth reproof getteth understanding. See here, 1. The folly of those that will not be taught, that refuse instruction, that will not heed it, but turn their backs upon it, or will not hear it, but turn their hearts against it. They refuse correction (margin); they will not take it, no, not from God himself, but kick against the pricks. Those that do so despise their own souls; they show that they have a low and mean opinion of them, and are in… Read the whole commentary →