Proverbs 28:7
Whoso keeps the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shames his father.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 2:1My son, if you will receive my words, and hide my commandments with you;
Proverbs 3:1My son, forget not my law; but let yours heart keep my commandments:
Proverbs 23:19Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide yours heart in the way.
Proverbs 28:24Whoso robs his father or his mother, and says, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
Proverbs 29:15The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself brings his mother to shame.
Luke 15:30But as soon as this your son was come, which has devoured your living with harlots, you have killed for him the fatted calf.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 28:7
6 Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. Here, 1. It is supposed that a man may walk in his uprightness and yet be poor in this world, which is a temptation to dishonesty, and yet may resist the temptation and continue to walk in his uprightness —also that a man may be perverse in his ways, injurious to God and man, and yet be rich, and prosper in the world, for a while, may be rich, and so lie under great obligations and have great… Read the whole commentary →