Proverbs 13:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Good understanding gives favor, but the way of transgressors is hard.

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  • Prov 3:4 : 4 So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
  • Jer 2:19 : 19 Your own wickedness shall correct you, and your backslidings shall reprove you: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and that my fear is not in you, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
  • Luke 2:52 : 52 And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.
  • Acts 7:10 : 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
  • Rom 6:21 : 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
  • Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness: they do not know at what they stumble.
  • Prov 14:35 : 35 The king's favor is toward a wise servant, but his wrath is against him who causes shame.
  • Prov 15:10 : 10 Correction is grievous to him who forsakes the way, and he who hates reproof shall die.
  • 1 Sam 18:14-16 : 14 And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the LORD was with him. 15 Therefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him. 16 But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.
  • Ps 95:9-9 : 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: 11 Unto whom I swore in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.
  • Ps 111:10 : 10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do his commandments; his praise endures forever.

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    14The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

  • Hos 14:9
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    9Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

  • Prov 14:8-9
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    8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

    9Fools mock at sin, but among the righteous there is favor.

  • Prov 12:2
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    2A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of wicked plans will He condemn.

  • Prov 11:3
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    3The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the crookedness of transgressors shall destroy them.

  • Prov 13:6
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    6Righteousness guards him who is upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

  • Prov 2:9
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  • Prov 21:29
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    29A wicked man hardens his face, but as for the upright, he directs his way.

  • Prov 10:13
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    13In the lips of one who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of one who is void of understanding.

  • Prov 3:4
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    4So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  • Prov 16:22
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    22Understanding is a wellspring of life to him who has it, but the instruction of fools is folly.

  • Prov 17:20
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    20He who has a perverse heart finds no good, and he who has a deceitful tongue falls into trouble.

  • Prov 3:13
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    13Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gains understanding.

  • Prov 10:9
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    9He who walks uprightly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways shall be known.

  • Prov 28:5-6
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    5Evil people do not understand judgment, but those who seek the LORD understand all things.

    6Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than he who is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

  • Prov 13:16
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    16Every prudent man deals with knowledge, but a fool lays open his folly.

  • Prov 10:16-17
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    16The labor of the righteous tends to life, the fruit of the wicked to sin.

    17He is in the way of life who keeps instruction, but he who refuses reproof errs.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known.

  • Prov 16:17
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    17The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; he who keeps his way preserves his soul.

  • Prov 12:15
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    15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who listens to counsel is wise.

  • Prov 14:12
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    12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

  • Prov 15:24
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    24The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

  • Prov 14:6
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    6A scorner seeks wisdom and does not find it, but knowledge is easy to him who understands.

  • Prov 15:19
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    19The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns, but the way of the righteous is made plain.

  • Prov 11:27
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    27He who diligently seeks good procures favor, but he who seeks evil, it shall come to him.

  • Prov 19:3
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  • Prov 15:10
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    10Correction is grievous to him who forsakes the way, and he who hates reproof shall die.

  • Prov 15:21
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    15The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

  • Prov 19:8
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    8He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding shall find good.

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    12The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and He overthrows the words of the transgressor.

  • Prov 14:18-19
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    18The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

    19The evil will bow before the good, and the wicked at the gates of the righteous.

  • Prov 2:13
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    13Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

  • Prov 14:15
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    14The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.

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    20That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

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    29The way of the LORD is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.

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    25Strike a scorner, and the simple will beware; and reprove one who has understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

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    23A wicked man takes a bribe out of the bosom, to pervert the ways of justice.

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    21Evil pursues sinners, but to the righteous good shall be repaid.