Verse 15

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.