Proverbs 13:15 - American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Good understanding giveth favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Good understanding giveth favour: But the way of transgressors is hard.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Good understanding wins favor, but the way of the transgressor is hard [like the barren, dry soil or the impassable swamp].

Common English Bible

¹⁵ Good insight brings favor, but the way of the faithless is their ruin.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ Good doctrine bestows grace. In the way of the contemptuous, there is a chasm.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ Good instruction shall give grace: in the way of scorners is a deep pit.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁵ Good sense wins favor, but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.

Proverbs 13:15 Cross References

Psalm 111:10

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

Proverbs 14:35

The king’s favor is toward a servant that dealeth wisely; But his wrath will 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 favor 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 Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

Luke 2:52

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

Acts 7:10

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor 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.