Proverbs 10:17 Cross References - Darby

¹⁷ Keeping instruction is the path to life; but he that forsaketh reproof goeth astray.

¹⁶ And it came to pass as he talked with him, that [Amaziah] said to him, Hast thou been made the king`s counsellor? Forbear; why shouldest thou be smitten? Then the prophet forbore, and said, I know that God has determined to destroy thee, because thou hast done this, and hast not hearkened to my counsel.

²⁵ and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: ²⁶ I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;

³⁰ they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:

¹ My son, forget not my teaching, and let thy heart observe my commandments; ² for length of days, and years of life, and peace shall they add to thee.

¹⁸ She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is he that retaineth her.

⁴ And he taught me, and said unto me, Let thy heart retain my words; keep my commandments and live.

¹³ Take fast hold of instruction, let [her] not go: keep her, for she is thy life.

¹² and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!

²³ For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:

¹ Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

¹⁰ Grievous correction is for him that forsaketh the path; he that hateth reproof shall die.

¹⁷ Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge. ¹⁸ For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips. ¹⁹ That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.

¹ He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy.

⁶ Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

²⁴ Whoever therefore hears these my words and does them, I will liken him to a prudent man, who built his house upon the rock; ²⁵ and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and fell upon that house, and it did not fall, for it had been founded upon the rock. ²⁶ And every one who hears these my words and does not do them, he shall be likened to a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand; ²⁷ and the rain came down, and the streams came, and the winds blew and beat upon that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.

²⁸ But *he* said, Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep [it].

¹ For this reason we should give heed more abundantly to the things [we have] heard, lest in any way we should slip away.

²⁵ See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him [who does so] from heaven:

⁵ But for this very reason also, using therewith all diligence, in your faith have also virtue, in virtue knowledge, ⁶ in knowledge temperance, in temperance endurance, in endurance godliness, ⁷ in godliness brotherly love, in brotherly love love: ⁸ for these things existing and abounding in you make [you] to be neither idle nor unfruitful as regards the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; ⁹ for he with whom these things are not present is blind, short-sighted, and has forgotten the purging of his former sins. ¹⁰ Wherefore the rather, brethren, use diligence to make your calling and election sure, for doing these things ye will never fall; ¹¹ for thus shall the entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ be richly furnished unto you.