Proverbs 8:36
But he that sins against me wrongs his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
In Context
35For whoso finds me finds life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Proverbs 5:11And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
Proverbs 12:1Whoso loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 20:2The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provokes him to anger sins against his own soul.
Ezekiel 18:31Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby all of you have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will all of you die, O house of Israel?
John 3:19And this is the condemnation, that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:33-36
Wisdom's Exhortation. 32 Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord . 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death. We have here the application of Wisdom's discourse; the design and tendency of it is to… Read the whole commentary →