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Proverbs 8:35

For whoso findeth Me findeth life, wisdom teaching him the fullness of true life, and shall obtain favor of the Lord, gaining it, bearing it away as a reward of grace.

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See also Proverbs 8:35 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Proverbs 8:35. _WHOSO FINDETH ME_] The wisdom that comes from God, teaching to avoid evil and cleave to that which is good; _findeth_ _life_-gets that knowledge which qualifies him to answer th...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Wisdom then is the only true life. The Word, the Light, is also the Life of man John 1:4. The eternal life is to know God and Christ John 17:3....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 _ 1. The call and appeal of wisdom (Proverbs 8:1)_ 2. What wisdom is and what wisdom gives (Proverbs 8:12) 3. Wisdom; the Person, who He is (Proverbs 8:22) 4. The renewed appeal ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERBS 8. WISDOM SPEAKS IN HER OWN PERSON. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addresses on practical wisdom is fitly closed by a profoun...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FIN DETH LIFE: i.e. resurrection life, and life eternal. Compare John 3:36; 1 John 5:12. See note on Leviticus 18:5. FAVOUR. as shown in Romans 6:23

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _obtain_ "Heb. _draw forth_," R.V. marg. See Proverbs 3:13, note....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 771 THE VALUE OF TRUE WISDOM Proverbs 8:35. _Whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord. But he that sinneth against me, wrongeth his own soul: all they that, hate...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND SHALL OBTAIN FAVOUR— Wisdom is the salvation, the happiness, the life of men. All these attributes apply admirably to Jesus Christ. We observe from this chapter, that if it be at all to be underst...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    TEXT Proverbs 8:22-36 22. Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. 23. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was. 24. When there...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. FOR WHOSO FINDETH ME FINDETH LIFE, AND SHALL OBTAIN FAVOUR OF THE LORD. "Findeth me," after long "watching daily at my gates...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    WISDOM'S CRY Wisdom now reappears as a preacher, holding forth in all the places where men most do congregate. After expounding in varied ways the excellence of the gifts which she can bestow, she ass...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    If a man listens to wisdom, then he will benefit. This man does not just listen to one lesson, and then walk away. Every day, he wants more wisdom. He is like a child who is waiting at his mother’s do...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 8 V1 The woman, who is called Wisdom, calls out. The woman, who is called Intelligence, is shouting....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHOSO FINDETH ME FINDETH LIFE. — Comp. 1 John 5:12; John 8:51; and above, Proverbs 3:18, where Wisdom is described as a “tree of life.”...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּ֣י מֹ֭צְאִי _מָצָ֣א_† חַיִּ֑ים וַ יָּ֥פֶק רָ֝צֹ֗ון

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 9 THE FIRST-BORN OF THE CREATOR "Doth not Wisdom cry?"- Proverbs 8:1 In the last chapter a dark and revolting picture of Vice was drawn. This chapter contains a lovely and living picture of...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    FINDING WISDOM, FINDING LIFE Proverbs 8:22-36 The world did not come into being by _chance_. It was created by an intelligent Creator. Nothing is arbitrary or by accident. Law is the expression of th...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The section containing the instructions of wisdom ends with two discourses, the first of which is the great call of wisdom. This takes up and deals more minutely with the call in the earlier part of t...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Lord. Wisdom, or Jesus Christ, is our salvation, happiness, and life. Septuagint, "and the will is prepared by the Lord." St. Augustine often quotes this to prove the necessity of preventing grace. ...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    FOR WHOSO FINDETH ME FINDETH LIFE,.... Of finding Christ, Proverbs 3:13. Such that find Christ find "life" or "lives" z, life spiritual and eternal; till they are found of Christ, and find him in eff...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. Ver. 35. _For whoso findeth me, findeth life._] Lest any man should hold it too hard a task to wait at wisdom's gates - as prin...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Now therefore hearken_, &c. Seeing I have a true love to you, and seeing I am so thoroughly acquainted with my Father's mind, and so excellently qualified to be your Counsellor and Ruler; _hear instr...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    To the writerProverbs 8:1 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not the only Scripture that proves this precious and wonderful...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    OBTAIN: _ Heb._ bring forth...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    32-36 Surely we should hearken to Christ's voice with the readiness of children. Let us all be wise, and not refuse such mercy. Blessed are those who hear the Saviour's voice, and wait on him with da...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Proverbs 8:35 finds H4672 (H8802) finds H4672 (H8804) (H8675) H4672 (H8802) life H2416 obtains...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    6). WISDOM BRINGS BLESSING ON THOSE WHO HEAR HER FOR THROUGH HER THEY FIND LIFE AND COME INTO THE FAVOUR OF GOD (PROVERBS 8:32). Because her delight was with the sons of men Wisdom calls on men to lis...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Praise of divine wisdom. Christ, the Wisdom of God, speaks to men. CHARACTERS: God, Wisdom (Christ). CONCLUSION: Right knowledge of the divine will concerning us is to be preferred above a...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Proverbs 8:1. _Doth not Wisdom cry?_ This woman is the reverse of the harlot, in the preseding chapter. She represents true religion clothed in every form of grace and glory: Christ, the Word and Wisd...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Whoso findeth Me findeth life._ THE CHRISTIAN LIFE DELINEATED: CHRIST TO BE FOUND IN THE ORDINANCES, WITH THE IMPORT AND HAPPY EFFECTS OF FINDING HIM I. The ordinances are the place where Christ is...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The Lord possessed us in the beginning of His way._ WISDOM THE FIRST CREATION OF GOD Here is the noble idea which overturns at a touch all mythological speculations about the origin of things--an id...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 8:32 O SONS draws together all of Wisdom’s paternal appeals to highlight the benefits of wisdom for faithful covenant living. ALL WHO HATE ME LOVE DEATH. Those who practice w...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 8:36. SINNETH AGAINST, “misseth,” so Stuart, Delitzsch, and Miller. _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH— Proverbs 8:32_ EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON HUMAN OBLIGATIONS TO DIVINE WI...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION PROVERBS 8:1 14. _Fourteenth admonitory discourse _concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted with the strange woman of Proverbs 7:1; and the exceeding grea...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter 8 we have an ode to wisdom. Wisdom is personified. And because of the personification of wisdom in this chapter, some have even likened wisdom unto Jesus Christ. "For in Him are hid all of...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 5:11; 1 John 5:12; Colossians 3:3; Ephesians 1:6; John 14:6;...

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