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New Living Translation
Proverbs 13:15
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Good sense wins favor,but the way of the treacherous never changes.
Good understanding wins favor; But the way of the unfaithful is hard.
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.
Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.
Good understanding produces favor, But the way of the treacherous is their own disaster.
People with good understanding will be well liked, but the lives of those who are not trustworthy are hard.
Keen insight wins favor, but the conduct of the unfaithful is harsh.
Good understanding wins favor [from others], But the way of the unfaithful is hard [like barren, dry soil].
Good understanding wins favor; But the way of the unfaithful is hard.
Good vnderstanding maketh acceptable: but the way of the disobedient is hated.
Good insight gives grace,But the way of the treacherous is unrelenting.
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the faithless is difficult.
Sound judgment is praised, but people without good sense are on the way to disaster.
Good common sense produces grace, but the way of the treacherous is rough.
Good understanding procureth favour; but the way of the treacherous is hard.
People like a person with good sense, but life is hard for someone who cannot be trusted.
Good understanding brings mercy; but the way of transgressors leads to destruction.
Intelligence wins respect, but those who can't be trusted are on the road to ruin.
Good sense grants favor, but the way of the faithless is coarse.
Good sense gives grace, but the way of traitors is ever flowing.
Good vnderstondinge geueth fauoure, but harde is the waye of the despysers.
Good understanding giveth favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard.
Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.
Good understanding giveth grace; but the way of the faithless is harsh.
Good vnderstanding giueth fauour: but the way of transgressours is hard.
Good vnderstandyng geueth fauour: but harde is the way of the dispisers.
Sound discretion gives favour, and to know the law is the part of a sound understanding: but the ways of scorners tend to destruction.
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of the treacherous is rugged.
Good teching schal yyue grace; a swolowe is in the weie of dispiseris.
Good understanding gives favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard.
Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of transgressors [is] hard.
Good understanding gains favor, But the way of the unfaithful is hard.
Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the sinful is hard.
Good sense wins favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.
Sound discretion, yieldeth favour, but, the way of the treacherous, is rugged.
Good instruction shall give grace: in the way of scorners is a deep pit.
Good sense wins favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.
Good understanding giveth grace, And the way of the treacherous [is] hard.
Sound thinking makes for gracious living, but liars walk a rough road.
Good understanding produces favor, But the way of the treacherous is hard.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Good: Proverbs 3:4, Proverbs 14:35, 1 Samuel 18:14-16, Luke 2:52, Acts 7:10
but: Proverbs 4:19, Proverbs 15:10, Psalms 95:9-11, Jeremiah 2:19, Romans 6:21
Reciprocal: Psalms 1:1 - way Proverbs 14:9 - among Proverbs 16:20 - handleth Proverbs 22:5 - Thorns Isaiah 21:2 - grievous Acts 26:14 - hard
Cross-References
Then the Lord appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." And Abram built an altar there and dedicated it to the Lord , who had appeared to him.
So Abram left Egypt and traveled north into the Negev, along with his wife and Lot and all that they owned.
(Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.)
From the Negev, they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, and they pitched their tents between Bethel and Ai, where they had camped before.
This was the same place where Abram had built the altar, and there he worshiped the Lord again.
So disputes broke out between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot. (At that time Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land.)
Finally Abram said to Lot, "Let's not allow this conflict to come between us or our herdsmen. After all, we are close relatives!
The whole countryside is open to you. Take your choice of any section of the land you want, and we will separate. If you want the land to the left, then I'll take the land on the right. If you prefer the land on the right, then I'll go to the left."
So Abram settled in the land of Canaan, and Lot moved his tents to a place near Sodom and settled among the cities of the plain.
So the Lord made a covenant with Abram that day and said, "I have given this land to your descendants, all the way from the border of Egypt to the great Euphrates River—
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Good understanding giveth favour,.... A good understanding in things natural and civil gives favour among men; and so a good understanding in divine and spiritual things gives a man favour among religious people, makes him taken notice of by them, and acceptable to them: and such an understanding no man has, unless it be given him; and such appear to have one that do the commandments of God, Psalms 111:10. The Israelites, for having and keeping the statutes of the Lord, were accounted by others a wise and an understanding people; and Christ, as man, when he increased in wisdom, grew in favour with God and men. It may be rendered, "good doctrine", as the Vulgate Latin version, or "right doctrine", as the Arabic version, "gives grace" o; is the means of conveying grace into the hearts of men, and of increasing it. What if it should be rendered, "grace gives a good understanding" p? since it is certain, that an understanding to know God and Christ is a gift of grace, 1 John 5:20;
but the way of transgressors [is] hard; ungrateful and unpleasant to themselves and others; it is a rough and rugged way, in which they stumble and fall; and cannot walk with pleasure themselves, when their consciences are awakened, and they are loaded with guilt, and filled with terror; and must be very disagreeable to those who have seen the evil of them.
o חן "gratiam", Pagninus, Montanus. Vatablus. Mercerus. Drusius, Michaelis, Schultens. p "Successum bonum dat gratia", Junius & Tremellius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Hard - The primary meaning of the original word is permanence (compare Deuteronomy 21:4; Micah 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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 13:15. 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.
