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Proverbs 9:6
6Leave foolish ways so that you may live. Learn to understand what is right, so that you can do it.’
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
4She says to foolish people, ‘Come here to me.’ She says to people who do not understand what is right, 5‘Come here and eat my food. Drink the wine that I have mixed. Leave foolish ways so that you may live. Learn to understand what is right, so that you can do it.’ 7If you warn a person who is proud, he will insult you. If you tell a wicked person that he is wrong, he will hurt you. 8So do not warn proud people. They will only hate you. But if you warn a wise person, he will love you.
Read all of Proverbs 9Proverbs 9:6 word by word
עִזְב֣וּ פְתָאיִ֣ם וִֽחְי֑וּ וְ֝אִשְׁר֗וּ בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ בִּינָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 9:6
- Proverbs 4:14Do not join with wicked or evil people. Do not do the things that they do.
- Proverbs 13:20If you have wise people as your friends, you will become wise yourself. But if you have foolish friends, you will hurt yourself.
- Psalms 26:4I do not become a friend of people who tell lies. I do not join together with hypocrites.
- Psalms 45:10Royal daughter, listen to me. Listen carefully to what I am saying. Forget your people and your family.
- Psalms 119:115Go away from me, you evil people! I will obey my God's commands.
- Acts 2:40Peter also told them many other things. He continued to speak strongly to them. He told them to be careful and he said, ‘People who are alive today do not do what is right. Save yourselves from the punishment that God will send on them.’
- 2 Corinthians 6:17And so, the Lord says: ‘Come out from among them and be separate. Do not touch anything that is disgusting. Then I will accept you.’
- Revelation 18:4Then I heard another voice which spoke from heaven. It said: ‘My people, leave the city! Come out! Do not do the bad things that the people of that city have done. Then you will not receive the terrible troubles that God sends to them.
- Proverbs 4:11I am teaching you to be wise, so that you will know the right way to live.
- Proverbs 10:17People who listen when people warn them are on the road to life. But those who refuse to listen are on a different road.
- Matthew 7:13‘Go in through the narrow gate to get true life with God. There is a wide gate that is easy to go through. The wide path is easy to travel on. Many people find that wide gate, but it is the way to hell.
- Luke 13:24Jesus said to the people there, ‘Do your best to go in through the narrow door. I tell you that many people will want to get in there. But they will not be able to go through it.
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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