THEOSISProverbs 10:17Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The way of life, to him that observeth correction: but he that forsaketh reproofs, goeth astray.
אֹ֣רַח לְ֭חַיִּים שׁוֹמֵ֣ר מוּסָ֑ר וְעוֹזֵ֖ב תּוֹכַ֣חַת מַתְעֶֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- 2 Pet 1:5And you, employing all care, minister in your faith, virtue: And in virtue, knowledge:
- 2 Pet 1:11For so an entrance shall be ministered to you abundantly into the ever-lasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
- Prov 6:23Because the commandment is a lamp, and the law a light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
- Luke 11:28But he said: Yea rather, blessed are they who hear the word of God and keep it.
- Prov 15:10Instruction is grievous to him that forsaketh the way of life: he that hateth reproof shall die.
- Matt 7:24Every one therefore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shall be likened to a wise man that built his house upon a rock,
- Matt 7:27And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and they beat upon that house, and it fell, and great was the fall thereof.
- Prov 29:1The man that with a stiff neck despiseth him that reproveth him, shall suddenly be destroyed: and health shall not follow him.