Proverbs 15:31
What meaning of the proverbs 15:31 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 15:31 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise."
What does Proverbs 15:31 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise."
Verse Proverbs 15:31. _THE EAR THAT HEARETH THE REPROOF_] That receives it gratefully and obeys it. "Advice is for them that will take it," so says one of our own old proverbs; and the meaning here is...
THE REPROOF OF LIFE - i. e., The reproof that leads to, or gives life, rather than that which comes from life and its experience....
CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the question, What are the better things? A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One (Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
OF. tending or leading to. Genitive of Relation. See App-17 (5)....
_of life_ i.e. which tends to life. So, _the instruction of wisdom_=the instruction which leads to, or bestows wisdom, Proverbs 15:33 below....
TEXT Proverbs 15:23-33 23. A man hath joy in the answer of his mouth; And a word in due season, how good is it! 24. To the wise the way of life goeth upward, That he may depart from Sheol beneat...
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. THE EAR THAT HEARETH THE REPROOF OF LIFE (THE REPROOF THAT LEADS TO LIFE IN THE HIGHEST SENSE) ABIDETH AMONG THE WISE - literally,...
1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 15 V1 A quiet answer reduces anger. But an impatient word increases anger. V2 A wise man’s words are full of knowledge. A fool’s words are p...
THE EAR THAT HEARETH THE REPROOF OF LIFE — _i.e.,_ one which does not refuse reproof, or instruction, which leads to life. (Comp. Proverbs 6:23.) The “ear” is put for the person, as in Job 29:11....
אֹ֗זֶן שֹׁ֖מַעַת תֹּוכַ֣חַת חַיִּ֑ים בְּ קֶ֖רֶב חֲכָמִ֣ים תָּלִֽין׃...
CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A meek t...
WORDS IN SEASON Proverbs 15:18-33 Learn to be slow to anger. This paragraph describes the even temper which is blessed to live with and blessed to die with. Temper is said to be nine-tenths of Chris...
Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
The ear that heareth the (i) reproof of life abideth among the wise. (i) That suffers himself to be admonished by God's word, which brings life: and so amends....
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife. The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain. A wise son maketh a...
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 follow...
THE EAR THAT HEARETH THE REPROOF OF LIFE,.... That is given according to the word of life, in a warm, fervent, and lively manner, with zeal, and in good earnest; which reproves the life of another by...
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. Ver. 31. _The ear that heareth the reproof of llfe._] That is, lively and life giving reproofs. _Veritas aspera est, verum amaritudo e...
_The ear that heareth the reproof of life_ The man that hearkens to and delights in that reproof and good counsel which lead to life; _abideth among the wise_ He will thereby be made wise, and be este...
V. 31. THE EAR THAT HEARETH THE REPROOF OF LIFE, a censure or correction which points out the way to life, ABIDETH AMONG THE WISE, belongs to their circle on account of the wisdom thus gained....
THE EAR THAT HEARETH; the man that hearkeneth to it, and delights in it. THE REPROOF OF LIFE; that reproof and good counsel which leads to life. ABIDETH AMONG THE WISE, Heb. _shall_ or _will abide_, &...
Proverbs 15:31 ear H241 hears H8085 (H8802) rebukes H8433 life H2416 abide H3885 (H8799) among H7130 wise H2450 ear - Proverbs 15:5, Proverbs 1:23, Proverbs 9:8-9, Proverbs 13:20,...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God, neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:25 These proverbs begin and end with a contrast: THE LORD opposes the PROUD (v. Proverbs 15:25) but is near those who act in HUMILITY that comes from the FEAR OF THE LORD...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 15:33. INSTRUCTION OF WISDOM, rather a discipline of wisdom,” or “a training to wisdom.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 15:31_ HOW TO GIVE AND TAKE REPROOF I...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 15:1 A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and that answer...
Fifteen. I love this first one here. A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger (Proverbs 15:1). How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away wrath. I...
1 John 2:19; Isaiah 55:3; John 15:3; John 15:4; Proverbs 1:23; Proverbs 13:20; Proverbs 15:5; Proverbs 19:20; Proverbs 25:12; Proverbs 9:8;...
The ear — The man that hearkens to that reproof which leads to life, seeks and delights in the company of the wise....