Proverbs 24:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.

Proverbs 24:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 15:23
A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!
Genesis 41:38-57
And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? …
Proverbs 25:11-12
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. …
Proverbs 16:1
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.
Job 6:25
How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

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Commentary

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

(vv. 23-26)

Here are lessons for wise men, that is, judges and princes. As subjects must do their duty, and be obedient to magistrates, so magistrates must do their duty in administering justice to their subjects, both in pleas of the crown and causes between party and party. These are lessons for them. 1. They must always weigh the merits of a cause, and not be swayed by any regard, one way or other, to the…

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

(vv. 26)

26. kiss his lips--love and obey, do homage (Psa 2:12; So 8:1). right answer--literally, “plain words” (compare Pr 8:9), opposed to deceptive, or obscure.