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Proverbs 9:6
6Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence.
Proverbs 9:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
- New International Version (NIV)Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight."
- New King James Version (NKJV)Forsake foolishness and live, And go in the way of understanding.
Context of Proverbs 9:6
4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither. To him that is void of understanding, she saith, 5Come, eat ye of my bread, and drink of the wine that I have mingled. Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence. 7He that instructeth a scorner getteth to himself shame; and he that reproveth a wicked [man] [getteth] to himself a blot. 8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise [man], and he will love thee.
Read all of Proverbs 9Proverbs 9:6 word by word
עִזְב֣וּ פְתָאיִ֣ם וִֽחְי֑וּ וְ֝אִשְׁר֗וּ בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ בִּינָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Proverbs 9:6
- Proverbs 4:14Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the way of evil [men]:
- Proverbs 13:20He that walketh with wise [men] becometh wise; but a companion of the foolish will be depraved.
- Psalms 26:4I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;
- Psalms 45:10Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:
- Psalms 119:115Depart from me, ye evil-doers; and I will observe the commandments of my God.
- Acts 2:40And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation.
- 2 Corinthians 6:17Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith [the] Lord, and touch not [what is] unclean, and I will receive you;
- Revelation 18:4And I heard another voice out of the heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye have not fellowship in her sins, and that ye do not receive of her plagues:
- Proverbs 4:11I will teach thee in the way of wisdom, I will lead thee in paths of uprightness.
- Proverbs 10:17Keeping instruction is the path to life; but he that forsaketh reproof goeth astray.
- Matthew 7:13Enter in through the narrow gate, for wide the gate and broad the way that leads to destruction, and many are they who enter in through it.
- Luke 13:24Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.
Commentaries on Proverbs 9:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6Forsake the foolish - For the companion of fools must be a fool. And live - Answer the end for which thou wert born.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6Wisdom helps people handle life well.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. (Compare Pr 1:4; 6:32). Wisdom not only supplies right but forbids wrong principles.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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