Proverbs 14:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

Proverbs 14:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 14:17-18
For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. …
Proverbs 10:23
It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
Proverbs 26:18-19
As a mad man who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, …
Proverbs 30:20
Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
Proverbs 13:15
Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.

Topics

Atheism Attributes of God Derision Fool God Guidance Lord Majesty

Commentary

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

(vv. 9)

See here, 1. How wicked people are hardened in their wickedness: they make a mock at sin. They make a laughing matter of the sins of others, making themselves and their companions merry with that for which they should mourn, and they make a light matter of their own sins, both when they are tempted to sin and when they have committed it; they call evil good and good evil (Isa. 5:20), turn it off w…

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

(vv. 9)

9. Fools make a mock at sin--or, “Sin deludes fools.” righteous ... favour--that is, of God, instead of the punishment of sin.