Proverbs 13:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴The law of the wise is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Proverbs 13:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 14:27
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Proverbs 10:11
The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
Psalms 18:5
The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
Proverbs 16:17
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
2 Samuel 22:6-7
The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me; …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 14)

By the law of the wise and righteous, here, we may understand either the principles and rules by which they govern themselves or (which comes all to one) the instructions which they give to others, which ought to be as a law to all about them; and if they be so, 1. They will be constant springs of comfort and satisfaction, as a fountain of life, sending forth streams of living water; the closer we…

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

(vv. 14)

14. (Compare Pr 10:11). fountain--or, “source of life.” to depart--(compare Pr 1:2-4), or, “for departing,” &c., and so gives life.