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Proverbs 13:20
20If you have wise people as your friends, you will become wise yourself. But if you have foolish friends, you will hurt yourself.
Proverbs 13:20 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.
- New International Version (NIV)Walk with the wise and become wise, for a companion of fools suffers harm.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He who walks with wise men will be wise, But the companion of fools will be destroyed.
Context of Proverbs 13:20
18Anyone who turns away from good teaching will become poor and ashamed. But if you accept advice when you do something wrong, people will respect you. 19It is very nice to receive the things that you want. But foolish people refuse to stop doing evil things. If you have wise people as your friends, you will become wise yourself. But if you have foolish friends, you will hurt yourself. 21Trouble chases sinners and it catches them. But righteous people will receive good things. 22When a good person dies, he leaves good things for his grandchildren. But a sinner's riches will belong to righteous people in the end.
Read all of Proverbs 13Proverbs 13:20 word by word
הוֹלֵ֣ךְ אֶת־חֲכָמִ֣ים יֶחְכָּ֑ם וְרֹעֶ֖ה כְסִילִ֣ים יֵרֽוֹעַ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 13:20
- Proverbs 2:20If you have wisdom, you will enjoy life, as good people do. You will live as righteous people live.
- Psalms 119:63I am a friend of everyone who respects you, and who obeys your teaching.
- Malachi 3:16Then the people who respected the Lord talked to each other. The Lord listened to what they said. While the Lord watched, someone wrote names on a scroll. Those were the names of the people who worshipped the Lord and respected the Lord's name. They wrote down their names so that people would remember them.
- Acts 2:42These new believers listened carefully to what the apostles taught them. They joined with everyone else in the group. They prayed together and they ate meals together.
- Hebrews 10:24We should think about how we can help one another. We want everyone to show love to each other. We want everyone to do good things to help one another.
- Proverbs 1:11They may say, ‘Come with us. We will find someone to murder. We will attack any helpless person that we choose.
- Proverbs 2:12You will not join with wicked people. You will keep away from those who speak false things.
- Proverbs 7:22Suddenly he hurried to follow her! He went like an ox that men are leading to its death. He went like a deer that is running towards a trap.
- Proverbs 9:6Leave foolish ways so that you may live. Learn to understand what is right, so that you can do it.’
- Genesis 13:12Abram stayed in the land of Canaan and he lived there. But Lot lived near the cities that were in the Jordan Valley. He put up his tents near the city of Sodom.
- Genesis 14:12Abram's nephew, Lot, was living in Sodom at that time. So they took him away from there, and everything that belonged to him.
- 1 Kings 12:8But Rehoboam did not agree with their advice. Instead he talked to some younger men. They had been his friends since they were young and now they were his advisors.
- 1 Kings 22:4So the king of Israel asked Jehoshaphat, ‘Will you go with me to attack Ramoth Gilead?’ Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, ‘Yes, we should work together! Use my soldiers and my horses as if they belonged to you.’
- 2 Chronicles 19:2The prophet Jehu, Hanani's son, went to meet him. He said to King Jehoshaphat, ‘You agreed to help a wicked man. You became the friend of someone who hates the Lord. You should not have done that. You have caused the Lord to be very angry with you.
- 1 Corinthians 15:33Do not let anyone deceive you. Remember this: ‘If you become a friend of bad people, you also will live in a bad way.’
- 2 Corinthians 6:14Do not become united with people who do not believe in Christ. God has made you right with himself. Right and wrong cannot work together. Light and dark cannot join together.
Commentaries on Proverbs 13:20
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 20He that walketh with wise men shall be wise - To walk with a person implies love and attachment; and it is impossible not to imitate those we love. So we say, "Show me his company, and I'll tell you the man." Let me know the company he keeps, and I shall easily guess his moral character.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20Verse 20 Multitudes are brought to ruin by bad company. And all that make themselves wicked will be destroyed.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 20The people we spend time with influence us.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2020. The benefits of good and evil of bad society are contrasted.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 13
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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