THEOSISProverbs 15:7Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The lips of the wise shall disperse knowledge: the heart of fools shall be unlike.
שִׂפְתֵ֣י חֲ֭כָמִים יְזָ֣רוּ דָ֑עַת וְלֵ֖ב כְּסִילִ֣ים לֹא־כֵֽן׃
The Church Fathers on this verse
No commentary on this verse yet
No Church Father commentary is available for this verse yet.
Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Matt 12:34O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
- Eph 4:29Let no evil speech proceed from your mouth: but that which is good, to the edification of faith: that it may administer grace to the hearers.
- Jas 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. The tongue is placed among our members, which defileth the whole body and inflameth the wheel of our nativity, being set on fire by hell.
- Acts 18:9And the Lord said to Paul in the night, by a vision: Do not fear, but speak. And hold not thy peace,
- Acts 18:10Because I am with thee and no man shall set upon thee, to hurt thee. For I have much people in this city.
- Song 4:11Thy lips, my spouse, are as a dropping honeycomb, honey and milk are under thy tongue; and the smell of thy garments, as the smell of frankincense.
- Rom 10:14How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
- Rom 10:17Faith then cometh by hearing; and hearing by the word of Christ.