Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the faithless is difficult.
BSB
ASV
Good understanding giveth favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard.
KJV
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Hard - The primary meaning of the original word is permanence (compare Deu 21:4; Mic 6:2). This may be applied as here to the hard dry rock, to running streams, or to stagnant pools. In either case, the idea is that of the barren dry soil, or the impassable marsh, in contrast with the fountain of life, carrying joy and refreshment with it.
The way of transgressors is hard - Never was a truer saying; most sinners have more pain and difficulty to get their souls damned, than the righteous have, with all their cross-bearings, to get to the kingdom of heaven.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 15:10Discipline is harsh for him who leaves the path; he who hates correction will die.
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Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
A wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.
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Proverbs 4:19But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.
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Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the…
Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.
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Romans 6:21What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.
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Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear…
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The expression on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom they flaunt their sin; they do not conceal it. Woe to them, for they have brought disaster upon themselves.