Proverbs 8:17

I love them that love me. — Comp. John 14:21 : he that loveth me.... I will love him.

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

I love them that love me; and those that seek me (g) early shall find me. (g) That is, study the word of God diligently, and with a desire to profit...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 8. Wisdom Speaks in her own Person. This chapter forms at once the nucleus and the climax of this section of the book. The series of addre...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me. I love them that love me: and those that seek me early shall find me. S...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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John Trapp Complete Commentary

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Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

I love them that love me I do not despise their love, though it be but a small and inconsiderable thing to me, but I kindly accept it, and will rec...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

To the writer Proverbs 8:1-36 provides one of the clearest proofs that the Lord Jesus is the Son of the Father from eternity. It is certainly not th...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

I love them that love me; I do not despise their love though it be but a small and inconsiderable thing to me but I kindly accept it, and will reco...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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Sermon Bible Commentary

Proverbs 8:17 I. "I love them that love Me." It might be inferred from such words as these, that man must love God as a preliminary to or conditio...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 8:1-20 14. Fourteenth admonitory discourse concerning Wisdom—her excellence, her origin, her gifts. She is contrasted...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

I love them that love Me, exercising this love in all the circumstances of life, and those that seek Me early , as they do for the first evidences o...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

I love — I do not despise their love, but kindly accept it and recompence it with my love and favour. Early — With sincere affection and diligence,...

¹⁷ I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 8:17

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 8:17