Proverbs 14:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Proverbs 14:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ephesians 5:17
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
Proverbs 27:12
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
Proverbs 4:26
Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
1 John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Topics

Caution Consistency Counsel Expediency Fool Opinion, Public Prudence Speaking

Commentary

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

(vv. 15)

Note, 1. It is folly to be credulous, to heed every flying report, to give ear to every man’s story, though ever so improbable, to take things upon trust from common fame, to depend upon every man’s profession of friendship and give credit to every one that will promise payment; those are simple who thus believe every word, forgetting that all men, in some sense, are liars in comparison with God,…

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

(vv. 15)

15. The simple ... word--He is credulous, not from love, but heedlessness (Pr 13:16).