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Monday, October 14th, 2024
the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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New Living Translation

Proverbs 14:27

Fear of the Lord is a life-giving fountain; it offers escape from the snares of death.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Fear of God;   Regeneration;   Temptation;   Thompson Chain Reference - Fountain of Life;   The Topic Concordance - Fear;   Life;   Living Waters;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fear, Godly;   Fountains and Springs;   Life, Spiritual;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Snare;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Fountain;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   Fountain;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Fear of God;  

Parallel Translations

New Century Version
Respect for the Lord gives life. It is like a fountain that can save people from death.
New English Translation
The fear of the Lord is like a life-giving fountain, to turn people from deadly snares.
New Revised Standard
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, so that one may avoid the snares of death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The reverence of Yahweh, is a well-spring of life, that a man may avoid the snares of death.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to decline from the ruin of death.
Revised Standard Version
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, that one may avoid the snares of death.
Update Bible Version
The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, That one may avoid the snares of death.
New King James Version
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, To turn one away from the snares of death.
Literal Translation
The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, to turn away from snares of death.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The feare of the LORDE is a well of life, to auoyde the snares of death.
King James Version
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Lexham English Bible
The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, in order to turn from the snares of death.
Good News Translation
Do you want to avoid death? Reverence for the Lord is a fountain of life.
Christian Standard Bible®
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, turning people away from the snares of death.
Hebrew Names Version
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, Turning people from the snares of death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The feare of the Lorde is as a welspring of life, to auoyde the snares of death.
George Lamsa Translation
Reverence for the LORD is a fountain of life to those who turn away from the snares of death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
King James Version (1611)
The feare of the Lord, is a fountaine of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Amplified Bible
The [reverent] fear of the LORD [that leads to obedience and worship] is a fountain of life, So that one may avoid the snares of death.
Berean Standard Bible
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death.
Contemporary English Version
and a life-giving fountain that keeps you safe from deadly traps.
American Standard Version
The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of death.
Bible in Basic English
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, by which one may be turned from the nets of death.
Complete Jewish Bible
The fear of Adonai is a fountain of life enabling one to avoid deadly traps.
Darby Translation
The fear of Jehovah is a fountain of life, to turn away from the snares of death.
Easy-to-Read Version
Respect for the Lord gives true life and will save you from death's trap.
English Revised Version
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
New Life Bible
The fear of the Lord is a well of life. Its waters keep a man from death.
Webster's Bible Translation
The fear of the LORD [is] a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The drede of the Lord is a welle of lijf; that it bowe awei fro the fallyng of deth.
Young's Literal Translation
The fear of Jehovah [is] a fountain of life, To turn aside from snares of death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The feare of the Lorde is a well of lyfe, to auoyde the snares of death.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The commandment of the Lord is a fountain of life; and it causes men to turn aside from the snare of death.
THE MESSAGE
The Fear-of- God is a spring of living water so you won't go off drinking from poisoned wells.
English Standard Version
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.
New American Standard Bible
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, By which one may avoid the snares of death.
World English Bible
The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, Turning people from the snares of death.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, That one may avoid the snares of death.
Legacy Standard Bible
The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life,To turn aside from the snares of death.

Contextual Overview

26 Those who fear the Lord are secure; he will be a refuge for their children. 27 Fear of the Lord is a life-giving fountain; it offers escape from the snares of death.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a fountain: Proverbs 13:14, Isaiah 33:6, Revelation 21:6

to: Proverbs 2:10-18, Proverbs 22:5, Psalms 18:5, Ecclesiastes 7:26

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 22:6 - the snares Proverbs 3:7 - fear Proverbs 16:6 - by the Proverbs 16:22 - a wellspring Proverbs 19:23 - fear Jeremiah 32:39 - they may Acts 9:31 - and walking

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The fear of the Lord [is] a fountain of life,.... Where the true fear of God is, there is a real principle of grace, which is "a well of living water, springing up unto everlasting life", John 4:14; eternal life is connected with it; it makes meet for it, and issues in it: or the Lord, who is the object of fear, he is the fountain of life: as of natural, so of spiritual and eternal life; spiritual life springs from him, is supported and maintained by him, the consequence of which is life everlasting;

to depart from the snares of death; sins, transgressions, as Aben Ezra interprets it; these are the works of men's hands, in which they are snared; these are the cords in which they are holden, and so die without instruction; the wages of them are death, even death eternal: likewise there are the snares of the world and of the devil, temptations to sin, with which being ensnared, lead to death; now the fear of the Lord is a means of delivering from and of avoiding those snares, and so of escaping death.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See the marginal reference and Proverbs 10:11 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 14:27. The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life — מקור חיים mekor chaiyim, the vein of lives. Another allusion to the great aorta which carries the blood from the heart to all the extremities of the body. Of this phrase, and the tree of lives, Solomon is particularly fond. See on Proverbs 4:23; Proverbs 10:12.


 
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