Proverbs 28:24
Whoso robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
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23He that rebukes a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flatters with the tongue.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:20He that walks with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
Proverbs 19:26He that wastes his father, and chases away his mother, is a son that causes shame, and brings reproach.
Proverbs 28:7Whoso keeps the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shames his father.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:24
23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue. Note, 1. Flatterers may please those for a time who, upon second thoughts, will detest and despise them. If ever they come to be convinced of the evil of those sinful courses they were flattered in, and to be ashamed of the pride and vanity which were humoured and gratified by those flatteries, they will hate the fawning flatterers as having had an ill design upon them, and the fulsome flatteries as having had an… Read the whole commentary →