Proverbs 13:15 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

¹⁵ Good understanding giveth favor: but the way of transgressors 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].

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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.

Proverbs 13:15 Cross References

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 bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord God of hosts.

Proverbs 3:4

so shalt thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Psalm 111:10

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

Romans 6:21

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

Acts 7:10

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Proverbs 15:10

Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.

Luke 2:52

And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Proverbs 14:35

The king's favor is toward a wise servant: but his wrath is against him that causeth shame.