Proverbs 8:35
For whoever findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favor from the LORD.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD.
In Context
34Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
36But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death.
Cross References
Proverbs 1:33But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
Proverbs 4:13Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Proverbs 12:2A good man obtaineth favor from the LORD: but a man of wicked devices he will condemn.
John 3:16For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life.
John 14:6Jesus saith to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me.
Ephesians 1:6To the praise of the glory of his grace, in which he hath made us accepted in the beloved:
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 →