Proverbs 12:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶The righteous is more excellent than his neighbour: but the way of the wicked seduceth them.

Proverbs 12:26 —

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Cross-References

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1 John 2:26
These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you.
Proverbs 17:27
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
James 1:13-14
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: …
Psalms 18:12-13
At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire. …
Matthew 5:46-48
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 26)

See here, 1. That good men do well for themselves; for they have in themselves an excellent character, and they secure to themselves an excellent portion, and in both they excel other people: The righteous is more abundant than his neighbour (so the margin); he is richer, though not in this world’s goods, yet in the graces and comforts of the Spirit, which are the true riches. There is a true exce…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. more excellent--(Compare Margin); or, “more successful,” while the wicked fail; or, we may read it: “The righteous guides his friend, but,” &c., that is, The ability of the righteous to aid others is contrasted with the ruin to which the way of the wicked leads themselves.