Proverbs 21:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. ”

• Proverbs 21:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The man who keeps “righteousness” will assuredly find it, but he will find besides it the “life” and the “honor” which he was not seeking. Compare 1 Kings 3:13 ; Matthew 6:33 .

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Proverbs 21:1 . watercourses: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Prove...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  mercy . lovingkindness, or grace.

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Findeth life, righteousness, and honour— Shall find life and glory. Houbigant.

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. He that followeth after (with great zeal and earnestness) righteousness and mercy findeth life (the gi...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon ( Isaiah 58:11 ).

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Righteousness and mercy. — He who endeavours to give God and man their due (see above on 10:2), and to shew love to them ( Proverbs 3:3 ), will gain for himself length of days ( Proverbs 3:16 ) pow...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the prov...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Verse Proverbs 21:4 . The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man t...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof. Are not t...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  He that followeth after righteousness and mercy ,.... Is eager, diligent, and fervent in his pursuit of these things: "after righteousness"; not a legal righteousness, such as the Jews followed afte...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. Ver. 21. He that followeth after righteousness. ] Though, for such a measure of it as he desires, he cannot...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  He that followeth after righteousness , &c. That fervently desires, and diligently and constantly endeavours to attain these virtues, and to live in the exercise of them; findeth life Spiritua...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        21 He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour.       See here, 1. What it is to make religion our business; it is to follow after righteousnes...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That followeth after; that fervently desires, and diligently and constantly endeavours, to attain to them, for such shall and will certainly obtain them. Righteousness and mercy; living in the co...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 21:21 A NOBLE PURSUIT AND A RICH PRIZE I. A noble pursuit . Following after righteousness and mercy. These words may be taken as referring both to a state of judici...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Proverbs 21:1 . The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn fi...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

  He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. Righteousness and mercy In every perfect character there will be found many opposite virtues, such as ge...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Proverbs 21:1 The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  v. 21. He that followeth after righteousness and mercy, eagerly desiring and practicing these virtues, findeth life, the true spiritual life whose source is in God, righteousness, such as is acce...

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• Proverbs 21:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:58 ; 1 Peter 1:7 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:21 ; 1 Timothy 6:11 ; 2 Timothy 2:22 ; 2 Timothy 4:7 ; 2 Timothy 4:8 ; Hebrews 12:14 ; Hosea 6:3 ; Isaiah 51:1 ; Matthew 5:6 ; Philip...

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