Proverbs 13:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.

Proverbs 13:19 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 7:14-17
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. …
Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Proverbs 29:27
An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.
Proverbs 16:17
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
2 Timothy 2:19
Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.

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Wicked (people)

Commentary

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

(vv. 19)

This shows the folly of those that refuse instruction, for they might be happy and will not. 1. They might be happy. There are in man strong desires of happiness; God has provided for the accomplishment of those desires, and that would be sweet to the soul, whereas the pleasures of sense are grateful only to the carnal appetite. The desire of good men towards the favour of God and spiritual blessi…

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

(vv. 19)

19. Self-denial, which fools will not endure, is essential to success.