Proverbs 1:10
in Proverbs 1My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
My son, if sinners entice thee, Consent thou not.
KJV
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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This verse in Proverbs 1
Commentary
9 notes on this verseWherefore by Solomon He commands the children to beware: "My son, let not sinners deceive thee, and go not after their ways; and go not, if they entice thee, saying, Come with us, share with us in innocent blood, and let us hide unjustly the righteous man in the earth; let us put him out of sight, all alive as he is into Hades." This is accordingly likewise a prediction concerning the Lord's passion.
This site's exposition
My son, if sinners entice you
on Proverbs 1:10-14
“My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them” opens the first voice the father warns against. The offer has the pattern, invitation, belonging and hidden cost: “share one purse,” the con of every gang, that shared spoil buys shared guilt. The father's strategy is refusal before argument.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
"My son, if sinners entice you," etc. Sinners entice in two ways those whom they deceive, because they either allure them to commit crimes with blandishments, or they uplift deeds already done with favors, as if laudably performed. In both cases, wisdom exhorts its listeners …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
40 ), Save yourselves from this untoward generation. How industrious wicked people are to seduce others into the paths of the destroyer: they will entice. Sinners love company in sin; the angels that fell were tempters almost as soon as they were sinners.
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A faithful and lively representation of wisdom's reasonings with the children of men, and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to those reasonings,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
If sinners entice thee, consent thou not - אל תבא al tobe, Will-not. They can do thee no harm unless thy will join in with them. God’s eternal purpose with respect to man is that his will shall be free; or, rather, that the will, which is essentially Free, shall never be forced nor be forceable by any power. Not even the devil himself can lead a man into sin till he consents. Were it not so, how could God judge the world?
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
A solemn warning against temptation. entice--literally, "open the way." consent . . . not--Sin is in consenting or yielding to temptation, not in being tempted.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
The first great danger which besets the simple and the young is that of evil companionship. The only safety is to be found in the power of saying “No,” to all such invitations.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בְּנִ֡י | beni | O son my | H1121 → | 4930 times |
| אִם־ | ʾim- | if | H518 → | 1069 times |
| יְפַתּ֥וּךָ | yefatukha | they will entice you | H6601 → | 28 times |
| חַ֝טָּאִ֗ים | chataim | sinners | H2400 → | 19 times |
| אַל־ | ʾal- | may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| תֹּבֵֽא׃ | tove' | you be willing | H14 → | 54 times |
בְּנִ֡יO son my
beniH1121 →4930 times
אִם־if
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
יְפַתּ֥וּךָthey will entice you
yefatukhaH6601 →28 times
חַ֝טָּאִ֗יםsinners
chataimH2400 →19 times
אַל־may not
ʾal-H408 →724 times
תֹּבֵֽא׃you be willing
tove'H14 →54 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 1:1Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.
it leads to
- Psalms 26:4–5
I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.
- Proverbs 4:14–15
Do not set foot on the path of the wicked or walk in the way of evildoers.
- Proverbs 13:20
He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
- Psalms 119:1–2
Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the Law of the LORD.
- Jeremiah 15:17
I never sat with the band of revelers, nor did I celebrate with them. Because Your hand was on me, I sat alone, for You have filled me with indignation.
- Psalms 26:4–5
Through
Proverbs 13:20He who walks with the wise will become wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed.
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 15:33–34
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
- Proverbs 15:31
He who listens to life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise.
- Proverbs 9:6
Leave your folly behind, and you will live; walk in the way of understanding.”
- 1 Corinthians 15:33–34
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About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor Book 1; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.