8The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
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Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; …
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8)See here, 1. The good conduct of a wise and good man; he manages himself well. It is not the wisdom of the learned, which consists only in speculation, that is here recommended, but the wisdom of the prudent , which is practical, and is of use to direct our counsels and actions. Christian prudence consists in a right understanding of our way ; for we are travellers, whose concern it is, not to spy…
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