Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 14:25
Souls — Such as are innocent, from false accusations.
Souls — Such as are innocent, from false accusations.
In the second clause, “destroyeth life” might have been expected as the antithesis to “delivereth souls.” But what worse could be said? “A deceitful witness speaketh lies.” All destruction is implied...
CHAPTER 14 THE WISE AND THE FOOLISH: THE RICH AND THE POOR The contrast now concerns the wise and the foolish, the rich and the poor. Let us see some of these contrasts. “In the mouth of the foolish i...
PROVERBS 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in number. There are rather more in this chapter of a political a...
SOULS. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13....
_delivereth souls_ by clearing them from false accusation and establishing their innocence. _a deceitful_witness _speaketh lies_ Rather: HE THAT UTTERETH (lit. BREATHETH) _lies_(_causes_, or _is) dec...
TEXT Proverbs 14:25-35 25. A true witness delivereth souls; But he that uttereth lies causeth deceit. 26. In the fear of Jehovah is strong confidence; And his children shall have a place of refu...
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies. A TRUE WITNESS DELIVERETH SOULS - `delivers' innocent souls that are calumniated and accused before judges. BUT A DECEITFU...
1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife (Proverbs 31:10)....
An honest man speaks the truth. He can rescue people from death, because he is honest. He will tell people if their actions are wrong. He will show them what is right and good. A man who speaks lies...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 14 V1 The wise woman builds her house. The foolish woman pulls down her own house with her own hands....
מַצִּ֣יל נְ֭פָשֹׁות עֵ֣ד אֱמֶ֑ת וְ יָפִ֖חַ כּ
CHAPTER 15 THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE "The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10 "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and the...
Verse Proverbs 14:7. The sense of this proverb is entirely altered in the Revision. The Authorized reading would make it mean that if a man is perceived to be devoid of knowledge he should be abandone...
He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. Do they not err that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. In all labour there i...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
A TRUE WITNESS DELIVERETH SOULS,.... Or, "a witness of truth" x: one that witnesses truth upon oath in a court of judicature, he "delivers souls"; men, not one man only, but many; a whole family, or m...
A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful [witness] speaketh lies. Ver. 25. _A true witness delivereth souls._] Or, Lives that lie at stake. He that helps the truth in such a necessity doth a...
_A true witness delivereth souls_ That is, persons, namely, such as, being innocent, are falsely accused; whom he delivers from the mischief designed against them, by declaring the truth, and thereby...
V. 25. A TRUE WITNESS, one who fearlessly utters the truth, DELIVERETH SOULS, from the death which threatened them as a result of false charges brought against them; BUT A DECEITFUL WITNESS, one full...
DELIVERETH SOULS, i.e. persons, to wit, such as are innocent, from the mischief of false accusations, by declaring the truth, which is sufficient for their vindication. _Speaketh lies_, to the injury...
Proverbs 14:25 true H571 witness H5707 delivers H5337 (H8688) souls H5315 deceitful H4820 speaks H6315 ...
THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH OVER FALSEHOOD AND OF RIGHTEOUSNESS OVER UNRIGHTEOUSNESS (PROVERBS 14:17). The thought of truth against falsehood undergirds this subsection. It commences with the fact that fools...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The house of the wicked, though built ever so strong and high, shall be brought to disgrace and at length made extinct. The...
Proverbs 14:1. _Every wise woman buildeth her house,_ as Proverbs 9:1, by training up her children to industry, piety and virtue. She is their first governess, and daily instils the elements of knowle...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 14:25_ DELIVERANCE BY TRUTH I. WHAT IS IMPLIED IN A WITNESS BEARER. A witness is supposed to give light. Those who have to decide upon a matter seek for the evidence of t...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 14:1 EVERY WISE WOMAN BUILDETH HER HOUSE. Wise women order well their household matters and their families; they have an important influence, and exercise it beneficially. Γυναι...
Continuation of the contrasting of goodness and evil. Every wise woman (Proverbs 14:1) And wise and foolish contrasted always, too. Every wise woman builds her house (Proverbs 14:1): She takes care...
1 Timothy 4:1; 2 Peter 3:3; Acts 20:21; Acts 20:26; Acts 20:27;...