Proverbs 13:15 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Good understanding giveth favour: But the way of the treacherous is rugged.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Good understanding giveth favour: But the way of transgressors is hard.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the transgressor is hard [like the barren, dry soil or the impassable swamp].

American Standard Version (1901)

Good understanding giveth favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard.

Common English Bible

Good insight brings favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Good doctrine bestows grace. In the way of the contemptuous, there is a chasm.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Good instruction shall give grace: in the way of scorners is a deep pit.

Proverbs 13:15 Cross References

Psalm 111:10

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; A good understanding have all they that do thereafter: His praise endureth for ever.

Proverbs 14:35

The king's favour is toward a servant that dealeth wisely: But his wrath shall be against him that causeth shame.

Proverbs 15:10

There is grievous correction for him that forsaketh the way: And he that hateth reproof shall die.

Proverbs 3:4

So shalt thou find favour and good understanding In the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 4:19

The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

Jeremiah 2:19

Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

Luke 2:52

And Jesus advanced in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and men.

Acts 7:10

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Romans 6:21

What fruit then had ye at that time in the things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.