Proverbs 15:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵The LORD will destroy the house of the proud: but he will establish the border of the widow.

Proverbs 15:25 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 146:9
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
Psalms 68:5-6
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. …
Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Proverbs 23:10
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Deuteronomy 10:17-18
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward: …

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Commentary

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

(vv. 25)

Note, 1. Those that are elevated God delights to abase, and commonly does it in the course of his providence: The proud, that magnify themselves, bid defiance to the God above them and trample on all about them, are such as God resists and will destroy, not them only, but their houses, which they are proud of and are confident of the continuance and perpetuity of. Pride is the ruin of multitudes.…

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

(vv. 25)

25. The most desolate who have God’s aid have more permanent good than the self-reliant sinner (Pr 2:22; 12:7). border--or, “boundary for possessions” (Psa 78:54).