Proverbs 8:32
Now, therefore, sons, hear ye me; blessed be they that keep my ways. (And so now, sons and daughters, listen ye to me; blessed be those who follow my ways.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man, that goeth not in the counsel of wicked men; and stood not in the way of sinners, and sat not in the chair of pestilence. (Happy is the person, who goeth not in the counsel of the wicked; and walketh not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the chair of pestilence.)
Psalms 128:1The song of degrees. Blessed be all men, that dread the Lord; that go in his ways. ( A song for steps of ascending. Happy be all those, who fear the Lord or who revere the Lord; and who go in his ways.)
Proverbs 5:7Now therefore, my son, hear thou me, (or And so now, my son, listen to me), and go thou not away from the words of my mouth.
Luke 11:28And he said, But yea, blessed be they, [or And he said, Rather, blessed be they], that hear the word of God, and keep it, (or who hear the word of God, and obey it, or do it).
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:23-32
Wisdom Eternal and Divine. 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when… Read the whole commentary →