Proverbs 13:20 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁰He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Proverbs 13:20 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 15:33-34
Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. …
Proverbs 15:31
The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise.
Proverbs 9:6
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
2 Corinthians 6:14-18
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? …
Revelation 18:4
And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 20)

Note, 1. Those that would be good must keep good company, which is an evidence for them that they would be good (men’s character is known by the company they choose) and will be a means of making them good, of showing them the way and of quickening and encouraging them in it. He that would be himself wise must walk with those that are so, must choose such for his intimate acquaintance, and convers…

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

(vv. 20)

20. The benefits of good and evil of bad society are contrasted.