the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 13:15
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A person with good sense is respected; a treacherous person is headed for destruction.
Good understanding gives favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard.
People with good understanding will be well liked, but the lives of those who are not trustworthy are hard.
Keen insight wins favor, but the conduct of the unfaithful is harsh.
Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of transgressors [is] hard.
Good understanding wins favor; But the way of the unfaithful is hard.
Good understanding wins favor [from others], But the way of the unfaithful is hard [like barren, dry soil].
Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.
Good teching schal yyue grace; a swolowe is in the weie of dispiseris.
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of the treacherous is rugged.
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the faithless is difficult.
Sound judgment is praised, but people without good sense are on the way to disaster.
Good understanding giveth favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard.
Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.
Good common sense produces grace, but the way of the treacherous is rough.
Good understanding procureth favour; but the way of the treacherous is hard.
People like a person with good sense, but life is hard for someone who cannot be trusted.
Good understanding giveth grace; but the way of the faithless is harsh.
Good vnderstanding giueth fauour: but the way of transgressours is hard.
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the sinful is hard.
Good sense wins favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.
Good vnderstanding maketh acceptable: but the way of the disobedient is hated.
Good understanding brings mercy; but the way of transgressors leads to destruction.
Intelligence wins respect, but those who can't be trusted are on the road to ruin.
Sound discretion, yieldeth favour, but, the way of the treacherous, is rugged.
Good instruction shall give grace: in the way of scorners is a deep pit.
Good sense wins favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.
Good vnderstandyng geueth fauour: but harde is the way of the dispisers.
Sound discretion gives favour, and to know the law is the part of a sound understanding: but the ways of scorners tend to destruction.
Good sense wins favor,but the way of the treacherous never changes.
Good understanding wins favor; But the way of the unfaithful is hard.
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Good sense grants favor, but the way of the faithless is coarse.
Good sense gives grace, but the way of traitors is ever flowing.
Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous [is] hard.
Good vnderstondinge geueth fauoure, but harde is the waye of the despysers.
Sound thinking makes for gracious living, but liars walk a rough road.
Good understanding produces favor, But the way of the treacherous is their own disaster.
Good understanding produces favor, But the way of the treacherous is hard.
Good insight gives grace,But the way of the treacherous is unrelenting.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Good: Proverbs 3:4, Proverbs 14:35, 1 Samuel 18:14-16, Luke 2:52, Acts 7:10
but: Proverbs 4:19, Proverbs 15:10, Psalms 95:9-11, Jeremiah 2:19, Romans 6:21
Reciprocal: Psalms 1:1 - way Proverbs 14:9 - among Proverbs 16:20 - handleth Proverbs 22:5 - Thorns Isaiah 21:2 - grievous Acts 26:14 - hard
Cross-References
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your descendants I will give this land." And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Then Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, to the South. [fn]
Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
And he went on his journey from the South as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
to the place of the altar which he had made there at first. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land.
So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren.
Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left."
Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom.
On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates--
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Good understanding giveth favour,.... A good understanding in things natural and civil gives favour among men; and so a good understanding in divine and spiritual things gives a man favour among religious people, makes him taken notice of by them, and acceptable to them: and such an understanding no man has, unless it be given him; and such appear to have one that do the commandments of God, Psalms 111:10. The Israelites, for having and keeping the statutes of the Lord, were accounted by others a wise and an understanding people; and Christ, as man, when he increased in wisdom, grew in favour with God and men. It may be rendered, "good doctrine", as the Vulgate Latin version, or "right doctrine", as the Arabic version, "gives grace" o; is the means of conveying grace into the hearts of men, and of increasing it. What if it should be rendered, "grace gives a good understanding" p? since it is certain, that an understanding to know God and Christ is a gift of grace, 1 John 5:20;
but the way of transgressors [is] hard; ungrateful and unpleasant to themselves and others; it is a rough and rugged way, in which they stumble and fall; and cannot walk with pleasure themselves, when their consciences are awakened, and they are loaded with guilt, and filled with terror; and must be very disagreeable to those who have seen the evil of them.
o חן "gratiam", Pagninus, Montanus. Vatablus. Mercerus. Drusius, Michaelis, Schultens. p "Successum bonum dat gratia", Junius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hard - The primary meaning of the original word is permanence (compare Deuteronomy 21:4; Micah 6:2). This may be applied as here to the hard dry rock, to running streams, or to stagnant pools. In either case, the idea is that of the barren dry soil, or the impassable marsh, in contrast with the fountain of life, carrying joy and refreshment with it.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 13:15. The way of transgressors is hard. — Never was a truer saying; most sinners have more pain and difficulty to get their souls damned, than the righteous have, with all their cross-bearings, to get to the kingdom of heaven.
