Proverbs 19:27
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causes to go astray from the words of knowledge.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
In Context
28An ungodly witness scorns judgment: and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 13:1If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and gives you a sign or a wonder,
1 Kings 22:22And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, You shall persude him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so.
Proverbs 14:7Go from the presence of a foolish man, when you perceive not in him the lips of knowledge.
Matthew 16:6Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Mark 4:24And he said unto them, Take heed what all of you hear: with what measure all of you mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.
John 10:5And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 19:27
26 He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach. Here is, 1. The sin of a prodigal son. Besides the wrong he does to himself, he is injurious to his good parents, and basely ungrateful to those that were instruments of his being and have taken so much care and pains about him, which is a great aggravation of his sin and renders it exceedingly sinful in the eyes of God and man: He wastes is father, wastes his estate which he should have to support him… Read the whole commentary →