Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the Law.
BSB
ASV
Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
KJV
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
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Luke 11:28But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
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If you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
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I will show you what he is like who comes to Me and hears My words and acts on them:
But He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear the word of God and carry it out.”
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and every expression of evil, and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save your souls.
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James 1:25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
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But He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
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Hosea 4:6My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget…
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Therefore My people will go into exile for their lack of understanding; their dignitaries are starving and their masses are parched with thirst.
Even zeal is no good without knowledge, and he who hurries his footsteps misses the mark.
Where there is no vision, the people perish,.... That is, "no prophecy", as the Vulgate Latin version renders it; and which is often the sense of the word, as the vision of Isaiah is the prophecy of Isaiah; and, in the New Testament, prophesying is often put for preaching; and here vision, or prophecy, signifies the public ministering of the word and ordinances, and want of persons to administer them; no expounder, as the Septuagint version; or interpreter, as the Arabic.
Where there is no vision - My old MS. Bible, following the Vulgate, translates: Whan prophecye schal failen, the peple schal ben to scatered. Where Divine revelation, and the faithful preaching of the sacred testimonies, are neither reverenced nor attended, the ruin of that land is at no great distance. But he that keepeth the law, happy is he - Go how it may with others, he shall be safe. So our Lord: “Blessed are they who hear the word of God, and keep it.”