Proverbs 14:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. ”

• Proverbs 14:14 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Shall be satisfied - These words are not in the original. Repeat the verb from the first clause, “He who falls away from God in his heart, shall be filled with his own ways; and the good man (sha...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  The backslider in heart (i) shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself. (i) He who forsakes God will be punished, and made weary of his sins, in which he del...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 14. In this, as in each of the preceding Chapter s in this section, aphorisms on the moral government of the world come first in number. There are rather more in this chapter of a politica...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  filled . satisfied. from himself. Ginsburg thinks, "from his own doings. "Compare Jeremiah 17:10 .

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 786 THE DANGER OF BACKSLIDING Proverbs 14:14 . The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself . THOUGH God does not select...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways - 1. Who is the backslider? סו...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And a good man shall be satisfied from himself— And a good man with his own works. Houbigant.

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. The backslider in heart ( Psalms 44:18 ) shall be filled with his own ways - (not...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. The prosperity of the family depends on the wife ( Proverbs 31:10-31 ).

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The backslider in heart — i.e. , who turns away from God. ( Psalms 44:19 .) Shall be filled with his own ways. — (Comp. Proverbs 1:31 , and Matthew 6:2 , &c: “They have their reward.”) Th...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 15 THE INWARD UNAPPROACHABLE LIFE "The heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stranger doth not intermeddle with its joy."- Proverbs 14:10 "Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful, and...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 14:7 . The sense of this proverb is entirely altered in the Revision. The Authorized reading would make it mean that if a man is perceived to be devoid of knowledge he should be aband...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. The house of the wicked shall be overthrown: but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. There is a way w...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways ,.... One that is a backslider at heart, whose heart departeth from the Lord; in whom there is an evil heart of unbelief in departing from t...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man [shall be satisfied] from himself. Ver. 14. The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways. ] He hath made a...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  The backslider in heart He who departs from God, although but inwardly; shall be filled with his own ways With the fruit of his ways, namely, the punishment of his sins; and a good man shall be...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        14 The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.       Note, 1. The misery of sinners will be an eternal surfeit upon their s...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  The backslider in heart; he who departeth from God and from the way of his precepts with all his heart, which implies the doing it upon deliberation, with free choice, and full purpose, and customa...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  We Are To Follow The Ways Of The Wise And Shrewd, Not The Ways Of The Foolish ( Proverbs 14:7-16 ). The whole emphasis of Proverbs is on following God's wisdom. By doing so the shrewd man understa...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 14:14 . Filled with , i.e. , “satisfied with.” Stuart translates the latter clause, “Away from him is the good man,” i.e. , he will keep aloof from the backslider. M...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Proverbs 14:14 I. The good man's satisfaction arises from the circumstance that he is regulated in his character and conduct by a fixed and stable thing, by principle. In contemplating anything to...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 14:1 . Every wise woman buildeth her house, as Proverbs 9:1 , by training up her children to industry, piety and virtue. She is their first governess, and daily instils the elements of k...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways. The back-slider in heart I. The general nature, symptoms, and progress of backsliding. The idea of backsliding is that of gradually re...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman buildeth her house. Wise women order well their household matters and their families; they have an important influence, and exercise it beneficia...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 14. The backslider in heart, he who is of a perverse, malicious heart, who has departed from God in his heart, shall be filled with his own ways, he will be surfeited with the consequences of...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Corinthians 1:12 ; 2 Peter 2:20-22 ; Ezekiel 22:31 ; Galatians 6:4 ; Galatians 6:8 ; Hebrews 3:12 ; Hosea 4:16 ; Jeremiah 17:5 ; Jeremiah 2:19 ; Jeremiah 8:5 ; John 4:14 ; Proverbs 1:31...

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• Proverbs 14:14 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  In heart — He who departs from God inwardly. Filled — With the fruit of his ways, the punishment of his sins. Satisfied — From the pious temper of his own heart, which cleaves to the Lord, he shall...

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