Proverbs 27:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man.

Proverbs 27:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 1:22-25
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. …
Psalms 33:15
He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.
Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Genesis 6:5
And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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Commentary

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

(vv. 19)

This shows us that there is a way, 1. Of knowing ourselves. As the water is a looking-glass in which we may see our faces by reflection, so there are mirrors by which the heart of a man is discovered to a man, that is, to himself. Let a man examine his own conscience, his thoughts, affections, and intentions. Let him behold his natural face in the glass of the divine law (Jas. 1:23), and he may di…

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

(vv. 19)

19. We may see our characters in the developed tempers of others.